Douglas Erwin
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| Douglas Erwin | |
|---|---|
| Born | U.S. |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Paleontology Paleobiology |
| Institutions | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Santa Fe Institute |
| Alma mater | Colgate University University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Notable awards | Charles Schuchert Award |
Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
He has written two books: Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago in 2006, and The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian in 1993. He co-wrote The Fossils of The Burgess Shale. He is co-editor on 3 books: Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective in 2000, Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine in 1996, and New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record in 1995.
[edit] References
- Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Biography
- Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift New York Times Essay by Douglas Erwin
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