McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
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The Origins of Jurassic Park
First great work of fiction about dinosaurs was Conan Doyle's Lost World. Legend of the Loch Ness monster begins at same time, influenced by King Kong. Key to Jurassic Park is that it use science to come up with a credible explanation for how dinosaurs might be brought back into the present.
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