Science News Online (12/19/98): References for A Billion Years of Beauty

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Exhibit of fossils strains the definition of art

A collection of geological designs straddles the divide separating art from science.

References:

Seilacher, A., P.K. Bose, and F. Pflüger. 1998. Triploblastic animals more than 1 billion years ago: Trace fossil evidence from India. Science 282(Oct. 2):80.

Further Readings:

Monastersky, R. 1997. Namibian fossils reveal ancient oddities. Science News 152(Nov. 22):326.

______. 1997. The search for the oldest animals. Science News 152(Nov. 1):287.

Sources:

Richard Benson
Yale University
School of Art
New Haven, CT 06520

Richard S. Field
Yale University
Art Gallery
201 York
New Haven, CT 06520

Stephen J. Gould
Harvard University
MCZ 151
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Sally Hill
Eli Whitney Museum
915 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517

Adolf Seilacher
Tübingen University
Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut der Universität
72076 Tübingen
Germany

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 25 & 26, December 19 & 26, 1998, p. 398. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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