![]() Tracy Chevalier, author of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” immerses readers in that time in “Remarkable Creatures,” a novel based on the lives of two English women who made significant contributions to paleontology in defiance of the restrictions of their era, gender and class. ![]() 23, 4000 BC) and that it contained all of God’s creatures, on whom He lavished loving and continual care. But just 200 years ago, the word “paleontology” hadn’t been invented and Britain’s Geology Society was just a few years old, its very existence a careful negotiation between science and religion, where some believed that Earth was formed on a specific date (Oct. ![]() Today, most people understand that animals can become extinct, whether as a consequence of a giant asteroid or because of our own pattern of habitat destruction, climate change and pollution that have endangered hundreds more. ![]()
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