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	Routledge
		AN INSTINCT FOR DRAGONS uncovers why, in the human mind, three separate predators manifested into one deadly enemy that encompasses and compounds the danger posed by each predator alone.
		AN INSTINCT FOR DRAGONS exposes the significance of dragon traits such as:
		Captivating, myth-breaking, and eloquent, AN INSTINCT FOR DRAGONS decodes the puzzle of the oldest, the first, and the most basic monster.
	www.routledge-ny.com /util/resources.asp?filename=dejones_release.html (410 words)

	An Instinct for Dragons
		An Instinct for Dragons is a book by University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones, which seeks to explain the alleged universality of dragon images in the folklore of human societies.
		In the introduction, Jones conducts a survey of dragon myths from cultures around the world and argues that certain aspects of dragons or dragon-like mythical creatures are found very widely.
		The hypothesis to which Jones conforms is that over millions of years of evolution, members of a species will evolve an instinctive fear of their predators, and he proposes ways in which these fearful images may be merged in artistic or cultural expression to create the dragon image and, perhaps, other kinds of hybrid monster.
	music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_An_Instinct_for_Dragons (282 words)

	Dragons
		Dragons can be ridden, but if a dragon agrees to let another ride them, they consider it a great honor to that person, and the privilege is given only to someone they have the utmost trust and respect for.
		Dragons are proud of their form, and if one covered it up, it would make it seem to the other dragons as if he or she isn't proud of being a dragon, and is therefore unworthy to be called a dragon.
		Dragons resist charm, and those who were born dragons are blind to what humanoid "attractiveness" is. Therefore, a dragon does not return love for these things; a charming or attractive individual would not have any greater chance of earning a dragons love.
	lensmoor.org /races/dragon.html (3574 words)

	Dragon
		The various figures now called dragons most likely have no single origin, but spontaneously came to be in several different cultures around the world, based loosely on the appearance of a snake and possibly fossilized dinosaur and Tertiary mammal megafauna remains.
		In Revelation 12:3, an enormous red dragon with seven heads is described, whose tail sweeps one third of the stars from heaven down to earth (held to be symbolic of the fall of the angels).
		In many oriental cultures dragons were, and in some cultures still are, revered as representative of the primal forces of nature and the universe.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Dragon.php (744 words)

	An Instinct for Dragons - Definition, explanation
		An Instinct for Dragons is a book by University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones, which seeks to explain the apparent universality of dragon images in the folklore of human societies.
		In the introduction, Jones conducts a survey of dragon myths from cultures around the world, and demonstrates that certain aspects of dragons or dragon-like mythical creatures are found very widely.
		Jones' hypothesis is that over millions of years of evolution, members of a species will evolve an instinctive fear of their predators, and he proposes ways in which these fearful images may be merged in artistic or cultural expression to create the dragon image and, perhaps, other kinds of hybrid monster.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/an/an_instinct_for_dragons.php (0 words)

	Chinese dragon
		That explains why the Chinese dragon has a body of a snake; the scales and tail of a fish; the antlers of a deer; the face of a qilin (a deer-like mythical creature with fire all over its body); and two pairs of talons of eagles; and the eyes of a tiger-lion.
		The dragon is one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac which is used to designate years in the Chinese calendar.
		In some Chinese legends, an emperor might be born with a birthmark in the shape of a dragon.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Chinese_dragon.php (1446 words)

	Rampaging reptiles Muse - Find Articles
		The beginning of the end for dragons came in 1734 when a famous Swedish scientist was asked to admire the corpse of a seven-headed dragon, called a hydra, on display in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
		According to Peter Hogarth, a dragon expert, he was threatened with prosecution by the outraged owners, who had paid an enormous sum for their prize specimen, and had to leave town in a hurry.
		The Komodo dragon, a ferocious meat-eating reptile with foul breath, is native to four tiny islands in Southeast Asia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4136/is_200311/ai_n9323562 (864 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on David E. Jones - An Instinct for Dragons at Epinions.com
		In order to make his argument that belief in dragons is universal among humans, he broadens the definition of a dragon to an absurd extent, including griffins, Quetzelcoatl of the Aztecs, and the bunyip of Australia.
		When Jones calls all of these "dragon", he makes the same mistake that eager theologians make when they call the Confucian tradition a religion, and then analyze it according to their own definition of what a religion must be.
		An Instinct for Dragons is not only poorly thought out, it is dull reading because of its single-mindedness.
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	The Footprints of Dragons
		The word "dragon," according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1966), is derived from the Old French, which in turn was derived from the Latin dracon (serpent), which in turn was derived from the Greek Spakov (serpent), from the Greek aorist verb, Spakelv (to see clearly).
		Dragons are found in the early literature of the English, Irish, Danish, Norse, Scandinavians, Germans, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Babylonians.
		Niflheim and the dragon Nidhogg perpetually gnawed at the root of the tree.
	www.rae.org /dragons.html (2791 words)

	Lo, Fiery Serpents! - "From Many Imaginations, One earsome Creature"
		In "An Instinct for Dragons" (Routledge, 2000), Dr. David E. Jones, a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, posits a biological explanation that jibes with the Jungian notion of unconscious collective fears.
		He argues that the dragon image, fermented in the primal soup of man's first nightmares, is a composite of the carnivores who fed on human ancestors when they were tree-dwelling monkeys: the pythons, the big cats and the raptors.
		But David Quammen, an independent scholar writing a book about the relationship between indigenous peoples and their predators, points out that although draconian crocodiles appear in the mythology of Australian aborigines, dragons are just as common in the myths of Vikings, who might have been eaten by bears, but never by crocs.
	members.fortunecity.com /fieryserpents/writings/article_fmiofc.html (1638 words)

	On the Origins of Dragons - The Cave of Awendragons - Care2.com
		Dragons would not be able to do this with these bat wings, they would have to glide or flap their wings repeatedly to stay in flight, where birds can fly without too much effort.
		Dragons live with their mate until they are somewhat aged, then split up to have a treasure horde of their own.
		As an illustration of this, the depiction of dragons on shields and heraldry became common in the middle ages.
	www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=2279&pst=94317&archival= (5710 words)

	The Dragon Stone - Myths: Mythical Origins
		To give an idea of the length of the tail covers, an average bird is 35cm long and its tail covers 60cm (note that the tail covers are not part of the tail).
		An issue with this idea is that modern humans do not seem to be afraid of dinosaurs at all.
		With the dragon of Kinabalu in Borneo, the weather on the mountain top was taken as an indication of the dragon's mood.
	www.polenth.com /myth/typeori.html (2055 words)

	The Serene Dragon : Possible Origins of the Dragon Myths
		David Jones, author of Instinct for Dragons, contends that dragons are a mix of the three great predators of primates in prehistoric time: the feline, the serpent, and the predatory bird.
		The word "dragon" was often used during the Medieval period for all sorts of reptiles, especially large ones.
		Dragon and Ice Castle: "Dragon is a concept to define how impulses of the planetary energy field are stored up here and flow out there as channels and pools of terrestrial electromatnetism".
	www.theserenedragon.net /origins.html (0 words)

	An Instinct for Dragons Western Folklore - Find Articles
		That an image is ubiquitous is indefensible; in the case of dragons, it's also demonstrably untrue, a fact that Jones tries to hide behind verbal shrubbery.
		This is to present an explanation as "suggested" in one paragraph and then take it as given in the very next.
		As if this were not enough (and it is not), the author adds as an appendix a chapter on the image of the tree of life-a bewildering departure quite tangential to the whole.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200204/ai_n9025632 (610 words)

	Dragons in Mythology and Religion
		The Leviathan is an ancient myth of the sea, and has been a fear for sailors for many generations.
		The fear is both that they may be attacked and eaten by it, and that it signals the end of the flat earth and missing it may cause them to fall off the edge.
		In the new testament however, the word Dragon is almost always associated with satan or one of his minions.
	pebblez.com /information/myth-religion-dragon-names.html (970 words)

	An Instinct for Dragons: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Guided by the tenets of biocultural anthropology, Jones postulates that the dragon is a construct of the three predators that most threatened humankind in its infancy: the raptor, the snake, and the large cat.
		An Instinct for Dragons is anthropologist David E Jones's account of his search for the mysterious birth of this ubiquitous monster.
		Captivating and eloquent, An Instinct for Dragons decodes the ancient puzzle of the oldest and fiercest monster.
	www.newjerseyhomeinspection.com /Home-Inspection-Home-Inspector/free.php?in=us&asin=0415937299 (0 words)

	Scientific American.com Store: Science Book Reviews - Authoritative reviews on science, technology, evolution, ...
		Many societies have a concept of and a word for the dragon, even though the creature never existed.
		The authors then proceed to an absorbing discussion of the stages in human evolution.
		They argue that "unless humans are different from all other animals (for some unexplained reason), several species coexisted on Earth, perhaps sometimes in the same geographical region, until a little less than 30,000 years ago." H. sapiens, they say, remains alone because the other species lost out through economic competition.
	www.sciam.com /books/index.cfm?section=review&issue_date=01-JAN-01 (0 words)

	CH712: Dragons as dinosaurs
		Legends about dragons are really actual accounts of man meeting up with dinosaurs.
		In China, fossil bones (of all kinds of creatures, not just dinosaurs) have long been called dragon bones.
		Fossils of Protoceratops inspired legends of griffins (Mayor 2000).
	www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CH/CH712.html (0 words)

	Are Dragons Real? (Dragons in Art and on the Web)
		Instinct for Dragons by David E. Jones, anthropology prof.
		Concludes eastern dragons might be like snakes, western dragons would be smaller and warm-blooded, sea dragons are the most likely, hydras the least, and wyverns—well you can read it yourself.
		Dinosaurs and Dragons from Strange Science: The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology, on Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus and early paleontology.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /dragons/8.html (983 words)

	Authors
		An original member of the CEA of Jacksonville, she served that organization as Childbirth Education Coordinator, Executive Director, and member of the Board of Directors.
		As a book editor-turned-writer, she is an award-winning author of thirty-nine nonfiction history, science, health, and social issue books for children from elementary school age through high school.
		An epidemiologist, she has been involved mainly in primary care research, where many health problems are clearly preventable through the adoption of healthier lifestyle habits.
	www.squareonebooks.com /gen_authors.html (11456 words)

	Dragons were dinosaurs - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "dragons" of supposedly ancient myth that creationists want to equate with dinosaurs are actually a rather modern creation (late middle ages) with a traceable development as popular myth.
		The Heraldic dragon is a classic example of what the dragon looks like with large bat wings, 4 legs, a barbed tail and tougue, row of rigid or crested spines, and an arrowed head with dog-like ears.
		Grendel, the monster Beowulf slew was actually an ogre, stated in the story to be a direct descendent of Cain, the first son of Adam in the Bible.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Dragons_were_dinosaurs (1096 words)

	THE GOD DEWI AND THE RED DRAGON
		There is the remains of a temple built along "dragon lines,"in the county capital of Yongchang; containing Roman artifacts, including pottery shards, weapons, implements associated with the worship of Mithra, and portions of a frescoe showing a blue dragon attended by men dressed as Roman soldiers.
		Dragons are of course very popular in mythology and legend and the whole 'Pendragon' thing is very much mixed up in Arthurian legends, and it is hard to say how much is historically accurate.
		A dragon was borne by the English army at the battle of Lewes in 1216 and later Henry III had a dragon standard made to be placed in the re-built Abbey at Westminster.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/ck15endtimecolumn/celticgoddewi.html (4992 words)

	TattooFinder.com: Dragon Tattoos, Dragon Tattoo Designs, Tattoos Dragons, Tribal Dragon Tattoos, Celtic Dragon Tattoos
		Dragons made as dragon tribal tattoos or dragon Celtic tattoos are also very popular.
		Dragon tattoos can be tattooed as armbands / arm bands, lowerback / lower back pieces, on ankles, shoulders, the upperback area, chest.
		First instinct is to find free dragon tattoo designs, but the quality of these designs is generally pretty poor (you get what you pay for, of course).
	www.tattoofinder.com /FT_dragon_tattoos_designs.asp (0 words)

	H-Net Review: Marion W. Copeland on An Instinct for Dragons
		Based on their insights Jones concludes, "The dragon is an expression of such chunks, indexing, biograms,...
		Thus, dragons also serve as a clue to the development of politics and religion in individual human cultures.
		My second disappointment is Jones' total rejection of any possible influence of dinosaur fossils (or indeed of a truly ancient predator/prey relationship) on the development of dragon images--or for that matter of the influence of dragons on efforts to recreate dinosaurs "in the flesh" (though I realize that is another study altogether).
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4297998507510 (0 words)

	Gamasutra - Instinct Technology Hires Business Development Director
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		Instinct Studio is a suite of software tools focused on video game development.
		Instinct Studio's toolset includes a number of features and techniques, including real-time, per-pixel lighting, normal mapping, specular highlighting and volumetric stencil-buffer shadowing.
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	Amazon.com: An Instinct for Dragons: Books: David E. Jones
		instinct for dragons, dragon complex, primate predators, tripartite cosmos, four clawed feet, ancient primates, dragon image, animal phobias, arboreal primates, ancestral primates, predator calls, life motif, terminal addition
		Mr Jones tries very hard to prove that dragons are combinations of the eagle, the leopard and the snake.
		With the compression of memory the leopard, matial eagle and serpent were blended into the dragon.This idea occured to him when he was preparing a lecture on the alarm calls of vervet monkeys.
	www.amazon.com /Instinct-Dragons-David-E-Jones/dp/0415927218 (0 words)

	Dragon Book Reviews - Dragons Must Be Here - Dragon Articles
		Evil dragons have returned to Krynn and it is up to an unlikely group of heroes to wage battle with the Queen of Darkness for control of the world.
		Dragon’s of Winter Night is the second installment in Margeret Weiss and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles series.
		Dragon’s of Winter Night is the second installment in Margeret Weiss and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance Chronicles […]
	dmbh.org /portal/dragonarticles/category/dragon-book-reviews (319 words)

	Buy.com - An Instinct for Dragons : David E. Jones : ISBN 9780415937290
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		An Instinct for Dragons is anthropologist David E Jones's account of his search for the mysterious birth of this ubiquitous monster.
		Captivating and eloquent, An Instinct for Dragons decodes the ancient puzzle of the oldest and fiercest monster.
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