【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（4）_英语听力练习mp3下载-科学-沪江听力酷

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【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（4）

听力简介：

在热心展示那头不知名动物如何庞大和如何凶猛的过程中，博物学家们似乎有点儿得意忘形。布冯死于1788年，但争论没有停止。
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In their [-1-] to demonstrate the incognitum's bulk and ferocity, the American naturalists appear to have become slightly carried away. They [-2-] its size by a factor of six and gave it frightening claws, which in fact came from a Megalonyx, or giant ground sloth, found nearby. Rather remarkably, they [-3-] themselves that the animal had enjoyed "the agility and ferocity of the tiger," and portrayed it in illustrations as pouncing with feline grace onto [-4-] from boulders. When tusks were discovered, they were forced into the animal's head in any number of inventive ways. One restorer screwed the tusks in upside down, like the fangs of a saber-toothed cat, which gave it a satisfyingly [-5-] aspect. [---6---] The most pertinent consideration about the incognitum, however, was that it appeared to be extinct—a fact that Buffon cheerfully seized upon as proof of its incontestably [-7-] nature.

Buffon died in 1788, but the controversy rolled on. In 1795 a selection of bones made their way to Paris, where they were examined by the rising star of paleontology, the youthful and aristocratic Georges Cuvier. Cuvier was already dazzling people with his genius for taking heaps of disarticulated bones and whipping them into shapely forms. [---8---] Realizing that no one in America had thought to write a formal description of the lumbering beast, Cuvier did so, and thus became its official discoverer. He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth").