Bones of Contention – The fossil that shook science.(book review)

Title :- Bones of Contention – The fossil that shook science.
By :- Paul Chambers
Published :- Paul Chambers (2002) Paperback (260 pages)
Outline;- The story of the discovery (1861) of the first early birds, that had some reptile features and feathered wings, of Jurassic age. This discovery got caught up on the Darwin theory of evolution at the time. The book tells the lives of the scientists, the path of the fossils from finders to museums and the development of the fossil science.
• “Paleontology, like so many other scientific disciplines, seems to suffer from those curious twists of fate that Carl Jung termed synchronicity. Events, argued Jung, rarely operate in isolation and, in fact, often seem to work in co-operation.”