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c2013, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 560.97309 034 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandalsSummary Note: Darwin's theory of evolution, published in 1859, shook up the study of prehistoric plants and animals. Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope both became determined to become world-famous paleontologists. Each fought bitterly to discover more fossils, name more species, and publish more papers than the other. The resulting confusion took years to correct, and crippled the field of paleontology for decades.
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c2013., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 560.97309 JOH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandalsSummary Note: Examines the history of paleontology and the feud known as the Bone Wars between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope that laid the foundation for the science.
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2013., Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 611.01 BALLEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandals.Summary Note: Explores the rivalry between Craig Venter and the Human Genome Project, which competed against one another to be the first to sequence the human genome. Discusses how their rivalry played out and how our increased understanding of DNA contributes to doctors' efforts to diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases.
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c2013., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 611 BAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandalsSummary Note: Explores human gene mapping, the history of the Human Genome Project, and the resulting feud between the HGP and Craig Venter, a scientist originally on the project that left to research on his own.
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c2013., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 614.5 KAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandalsSummary Note: Explores AIDS and the virus that causes it, and the resulting feud between the two scientific teams that worked to identify it.
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c2013., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 333.793 MCP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientific rivalries and scandalsSummary Note: Examines the feud between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla over which electric system would be the standard, and the ways that both changed the world.
