Dinosaurs Ever Evolving
Debus Allen A. Debus
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Beschreibung
From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "e;life through time"e; narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "e;evolution"e; of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.