Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars

by Keith M. Parsons and Keith Parsons

Book Overview

" . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer."

At stake in the "Science Wars" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253339375
• ISBN13: 9780253339379
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"