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Established in nineteenth-century Great britain, The Dragon Seekers chronicles the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose studies in geology and paleontology resulted in the discovery of the age of dinosaurs. The interesting cast of personas includes Mary Anning, a working-class woman who became one of the very most successful fossil collectors ever; Thomas Hawkins, another beginner collector who "improved upon" fossils in order to increase their market value; the eccentric William Buckland, discoverer of the world's first dinosaur (Megalosaurus), and Richard Owen, a specialist anatomist, who synthesized the discoveries of this and ultimately coined the word "dinosaur" in 1842. Christopher McGowan needs us back again to a period when the new sciences of geology and paleontology were as young and radiant as genetic executive is today. Through heated up general public debates on from the age of the earth to the notion of extinction, the Dragon Seekers initiated the transfer from a biblical to a methodical interpretation of the distant past. In this way, they laid the intellectual groundwork for Darwin's ground-breaking ideas, and launched a worldwide obsession with the Age of Reptiles that carries on even today.
