What event influenced Eiseley's Innocent Assassins?
Test your knowledge on Loren Eiseley's 'The Innocent Assassins' and the major 20th-century historical event that influenced his views on violence.
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schopenhauer Nimravids were prehistoric predators that evolved deadly fangs long before true cats.
Prehistoric cat fights: The 'Innocent Assassins' fossil shows a 25-million-year-old Nimravus whose long fang was pushed straight through the arm bone of a rival.
schopenhauer A tragic prehistoric cat fight fossilized in stone inspired Eiseley's most famous poem.
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock. In 1932, Eiseley excavated prehistoric mammal fossils during a museum expedition to western Nebraska's Wildcat Hills.
Which administrative role did Loren Eiseley hold at the University of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1961?
How old is the 'Innocent Assassins' fossil showing two prehistoric predators locked in combat?
What major historical event in the 20th century influenced Eiseley's reflections on violence in 'The Innocent Assassins'?
The fossilized skull of which prehistoric mammal inspired Eiseley's poem 'The Innocent Assassins'?
In which rugged Nebraska landscape did Eiseley's team find the famous locked-saber fossil?
What was the nickname of the University of Nebraska fossil-hunting team that Eiseley joined in 1932?
Eiseley earned his PhD in anthropology from which Ivy League university in 1937?