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9780060194956

A Fish Caught in Time

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  • ISBN13:

    9780060194956

  • ISBN10:

    0060194952

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-16
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Examines the political, scientific, and financial battles that followed the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, an evolutionary link between fish and reptiles believed to be extinct, and discusses the impact of the discovery.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xvii
Latimeria Chalumnae
1(20)
Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi
21(14)
Inter Pisces
35(18)
Malania Anjouanae
53(18)
Star Fish
71(18)
Notre Coelacanthe
89(14)
Le Poisson Vivant
103(12)
In Comorian
115(16)
Der Quastenflosser
131(16)
Jago
147(20)
Rajah Laut
167(16)
Terra Incognita
183(12)
Appendix A 195(10)
Appendix B 205(6)
Selected Reading 211(4)
Index 215

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