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Dinosaur Wars

Sat, 2011-01-22 10:49 -- John Hawks

Brian Switek reviews the American Experience program, Dinosaur Wars, which covered the scientific rivalry between paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. We watched it this week, I love it when AE takes a science-related subject. It does this way too rarely considering the importance of science and technology to American history.

Without doing a full review, it was a good show. I liked it when Thomas Henry Huxley showed up to visit.

I just wish I knew someone with the middle name of "Drinker."

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history of paleontology
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