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develop rich content across the time periods, through which learners can develop an understanding of chronology through exploring … the use of evidence. Brown, Don (2003), Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries, Houghton Mifflin Co, ISBN 978-0-618-31081-4 The second woman is Anning's friend, Elizabeth Philpot, an educated woman who, being a spinster, relocated with her sisters to Lyme Regis after the death of their father. In fact, reading her story strongly reminded me of the sisters in Sense and Sensibility - and yes there even is a military man who plays a crucial role in the lives of both women. It has, in a way, awakened a new desire to visit this unknown region of the English coast, Lyme Regis, and to learn more about these two special women, unfairly neglected by their sex which deprived them of public recognition for their important role in the Theory of Evolution.

Berkeley, Edmund; Berkeley, Dorothy Smith (1988), George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist, University of Alabama Press Dean, Dennis R. (1999), Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs, Cambridge University Press, p.310, Bibcode: 1999gmdd.book.....D, ISBN 978-0-521-42048-8 Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. pp.ref:odnb/568. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/568 . Retrieved 30 November 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Anning's own contemporaries and their theological preoccupation at the time with whether God's creatures literally endure is quite interesting and some of these same concepts will perplex Teilhard de Chardin nearly one hundred years later.This a book of historical fiction, so we do know that Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpott lived off the coast of England and searched for fossils in the early 1800s. Their accomplishments are well documented. What is conjecture is the story of the difficulties they faced at a time when women needed a man to communicate with the world. It is the story of following your passion and the redemptive power of friendship. These women could never have known that they were challenging the accepted science and religion of the time. The book talks about some of the conflicts they faced as they discovered things that contradicted their fundamentalist religion. I knew what the scientists were saying about what they were, these fossils as they were now called, and I had my own ideas too. So I learnt to be patient and to find it one tiny chip at a time. To tease it out from where it had been hiding for who knows how long. I didn't know what they were, these curiosities, but somehow I knew that they came from another world.

Anning found several other ichthyosaur fossils between 1815 and 1819, including almost complete skeletons of varying sizes. In 1821, William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, both members of the Geological Society of London, collaborated on a paper that analysed in detail the specimens found by Anning and others. They concluded that ichthyosaurs were a previously unknown type of marine reptile, and based on differences in tooth structure, they concluded that there had been at least three species. [55] [58] Also in 1821, Anning found the 20ft (6.1m) skeleton from which the species Ichthyosaurus platydon (now Temnodontosaurus platyodon) would be named. [59] In the 1980s it was determined that the first ichthyosaur specimen found by Joseph and Mary Anning was also a member of Temnodontosaurus platyodon. [60] Lomax, D. R.; Massare, J. A. (2015). "A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of West Dorset, England, U.K". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2): e903260. Bibcode: 2015JVPal..35E3260L. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.903260. S2CID 85745787. Montanar, Shaena (21 May 2015). "Mary Anning: From Selling Seashells to One of History's Most Important Paleontologists". Forbes. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016 . Retrieved 3 November 2016. The author certainly writes descriptively enough about the coast, the people and the wild weather to make you glad you're not out there digging with them, being lashed by wind and rain.Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future: It was better written than I'd given it credit for originally, and I'd like to add this quotation to give a sense of her style. The facts of this story are augmented with very realistic suppositions as to the rest of the story. Chevalier has almost certainly gotten much of it right, and with the rest her guess is as good as an informed guess could be. This is historical fiction at its finest. All the characters, real and imagined, are painted with a deft hand and ring completely true. It was inspiring to see how these two women carved out unique places in the society that disapproved of them simply because they wished for more than being a wife and mother. At this moment in history, intellectual property was the purview of men, and if you have ever been treated with condescension from a person who knew less than you did on a subject, you will feel the frustration of these characters as they attempt to deal with the men who usurp their accomplishments. If you have ever earned anyone’s true respect, you will also feel their triumphs. Taylor, M. A. and Torrens, H. S. (2014). An Anonymous Account of Mary Anning (1799–1847), Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, Published in All The Year Round in 1865, and its Attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827–1890), Schoolmaster, Parson, and Author. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 135, 71–85.

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