Abominable Science! : : Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
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Cryptozoology: real science or pseudoscience? -- Bigfoot: the Sasquatch -- The Yeti: the abominable snowman -- Nessie: the Loch Ness monster -- The evolution of the sea serpent: from Hippocamp to Cadborosaurus -- Mokele mbembe: the Congo dinosaur -- Why do people believe in monsters? The complexity of cryptozoology.
Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xvi, 411 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780231153201 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231153201 (cloth : alk. paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Prothero, Donald R.
SUBJECTS
Cryptozoology.
Animals, Mythical.
Pseudoscience.