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A Fish Caught in Time
The Search for the Coelacanth
Taschenbuch von Samantha Weinberg
Sprache: Englisch

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A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor ? 400 million years old ? a four-limbed dinofish!

In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth ? a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link ? the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century's greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor ? 400 million years old ? a four-limbed dinofish!

In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth ? a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link ? the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century's greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.
Über den Autor
Samantha Weinberg
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Fachbereich: Zoologie
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
ISBN-13: 9781857029079
ISBN-10: 1857029070
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weinberg, Samantha
Hersteller: Fourth Estate
Maße: 203 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Samantha Weinberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2000
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
preigu-id: 115134071
Über den Autor
Samantha Weinberg
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Fachbereich: Zoologie
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
ISBN-13: 9781857029079
ISBN-10: 1857029070
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Weinberg, Samantha
Hersteller: Fourth Estate
Maße: 203 x 127 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Samantha Weinberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2000
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
preigu-id: 115134071
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