Bjorn Kurten (not Kurtin) (1924-1988) was one of the world's leading
authorities on Pleistocene mammals and the author of many scientific books
and papers, several popular works about evoloution, palaeontology,
palaeoanthropology and archaeology, and two novels. His books include:
 
Before the Indians
The Cave Bear Story : Life and Death of a Vanished Animal
How to Deep Freeze a Mammoth
Our Earliest Ancestors
The Innocent Assassins : Biological Essays on Life in the Present and
Distant Past
On Evolution and Fossil Mammals
Pleistocene Mammals of North America (with E. Anderson)
Teeth : Form, Function and Evolution
The Age of Dinosaurs
The Ice Age
Not from the Apes : A History of Man's Origin and Evolution
Dance of the Tiger : A Novel of the Ice Age (intro. by Stephen Jay Gould)
Singletusk : A Novel of the Ice Age
 
and every single title is good reading...
 
Chris Andersen
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Kris Hirst [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 11:03 AM
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> Subject:      Re: a quote
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> At 10:40 AM 12/04/1998 -0500, you wrote:
> >Can't help you, but what a great quote!  Being a curatorial type, not an
> >archeologist, could you tell me who Bjorn Kurtin is/was?  Thanks!
> >
> >Vivian Lea Stevens
>
> Vivian:
>
> I'm told I spelled his name wrong; it should be Bjorn Kurten, and he was a
> Finnish vertebrate paleontologist, and I'm told very well respected. I
> admit I hadn't heard of him until this friend of mine provided the quote
> for me, but I have since learned that Kurten also wrote some very popular
> paleo-fiction stuff. It is a great quote, and I'm not denying I won't use
> it for a "quote of the week" of my website <g>, but it would be a pity of
> my friend can't use it.
>
> kris
> Kris Hirst
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> The University of Iowa
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