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Esta es una presentación basada en la vida de Mary Anning, la primera mujer dedicada a la paleontología. La presentación está escrita en inglés.
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Written by Terry Sullivan in 1908
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IMPORTANT PEOPLELANGUAGE II
MARÍA SOL MANULI
MARY ANNING: “THE GREATEST FOSSILIST
OF THE WORLD”
MARY ANNING:
Childhood
Family
Fossils as family business
Major discoveries
Interaction with the scientific community
Illness and Death
How her findings changed some scientific conceptions.
Sol’s opinion about Mary Anning.
CHILDHOOD, HER FAMILY AND THEIR FOSSIL BUSINESS
1799Mary Anning is
born on 21 May
Mary Anning’s Parents: Richard Anning and Mary Moore, known as Molly.Only Joseph and Mary survived.A lucky escape
They were religious dissenters. They were not followers of the Church of England.
Poor working-class family.
French revolutionar
y war( 1792-1802)
Blue Lias• Alternating layers of limestone and shale.• the Jurassic period (about 210–195 million
years ago).
Shale
Limestone
MAJOR DISCOVERIES
1819: The fossil Ichthyosaur is brought to the British Museum
Early Jurassic
belemnites ammonites
Interaction with the scientific community
Mary Annig was an enigma of her time.Women were just regarded as empty-headed
individuals.Mary Anning was marginalized because of
her sex, regional dialect, lack of formal education, and adherence to the Dissenter faith.
However, Mary contributed with several famous geologists
At the end, Mary became famous across Europe as a fossil hunter and was made a Fellow of the Geological Society just before she died – this was very unusual for a woman
Illness and Death
• She passed away on 9th May in 1847
• She suffered from Breast cancer
• Darwin took Anning’s discoveries as an evidence in order to carry out his “Theory of Evolution”. Mary Anning is mentioned in his “The Origin of Species”
How her findings changed some scientific conceptions
• Anning's discoveries
became key pieces of
evidence for extinction.
• To understand how were environment s in the past and the history of the Earth.
• Also, They were useful to support other scientific viewpoints.
• To develop a new science
called “paleontology” .
Sol’s opinion about Mary Anning
A Self-taught personCurious IntelligentSingle-minded Lively personalityApproachableModest
Sources:• [Shelley_Emling]_The_Fossil_Hunter_Dinosaurs• Mary Anning- Princess of Palaeontology and Geological Lioness.pdf• wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning• http://www.bbc.co.uk/• www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html• https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/anning.html• www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/in-the.../mary-anning• Great Minds Mary Anning, 'The Greatest Fossilist in the World'.wmv
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