Fossil Forensics - Jerry Bergman

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Résumé :
NOTE - there is a new edition coming out soon through Creation Summit Publishing. This version will be discontinued shortly because they have had a hard time getting booksellers to sell their title with this version still available. There is a difference between fact and speculation. Unfortunately, scientists and science media often fail to make the distinction everywhere they should. This is especially true within paleontology. Paleontologists often develop theories which, while interesting or even exciting, lack supporting evidence, or are even flat out contradicted by available evidence. Fossil Forensics: Separating Fact from Fantasy in Paleontology brings you face to face with fossils of all kinds and from every layer of the fossil record. Photographs, diagrams, illustrations, and in-depth descriptions help you get acquainted with not only the fossils but also the organisms behind them and how they affect our understanding of natural history. In Fossil Forensics, biology professor Dr. Jerry Bergman examines many claims that have been made about fossil discoveries to determine what the rock record does and does not show about organisms, their ancestry, and their evolution. In this book, Dr. Bergman examines claims about general features of fossils such as teeth and feathers as well as claims about the origins and lineages of groups of all kinds, including whales, bats, birds, and insects....

Biographie:
Dr. Bergman taught biology, chemistry, and anatomy at Northwest State College in Archbold, Ohio and was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Toledo Medical College. He has 9 earned degrees, including 5 graduate degrees and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His over 1,800 publications are in both peer-reviewed scholarly and popular science journals. Dr. Bergman's work has been translated into 13 languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Arabic, Polish, and Swedish. His books - as well as the books that include chapters he has authored - are in over 1,400 college and major public libraries in 26 countries. So far, over 80,000 copies of the 48 books and monographs that he has authored or co-authored are in print. He has spoken over 2,000 times to college, university, and church groups in America, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has also been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows....

Sommaire:
NOTE - there is a new edition coming out soon through Creation Summit Publishing. This version will be discontinued shortly because they have had a hard time getting booksellers to sell their title with this version still available. There is a difference between fact and speculation. Unfortunately, scientists and science media often fail to make the distinction everywhere they should. This is especially true within paleontology. Paleontologists often develop theories which, while interesting or even exciting, lack supporting evidence, or are even flat out contradicted by available evidence. Fossil Forensics: Separating Fact from Fantasy in Paleontology brings you face to face with fossils of all kinds and from every layer of the fossil record. Photographs, diagrams, illustrations, and in-depth descriptions help you get acquainted with not only the fossils but also the organisms behind them and how they affect our understanding of natural history. In Fossil Forensics, biology professor Dr. Jerry Bergman examines many claims that have been made about fossil discoveries to determine what the rock record does and does not show about organisms, their ancestry, and their evolution. In this book, Dr. Bergman examines claims about general features of fossils such as teeth and feathers as well as claims about the origins and lineages of groups of all kinds, including whales, bats, birds, and insects....