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==References==
==References==
*[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8011.html ''Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080305210820/http://press.princeton.edu:80/titles/8011.html ''Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago'']
*[http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/erwin.html Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History] Biography
*[http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/erwin.html Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History] Biography
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26essay.html Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift] New York Times Essay by Douglas Erwin
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26essay.html Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift] New York Times Essay by Douglas Erwin

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Douglas H. Erwin
Born
NationalityUnited States
Alma materColgate University
University of California, Santa Barbara
AwardsCharles Schuchert Award (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Paleobiology
InstitutionsSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Santa Fe Institute

Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Chair of the Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.

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 and The Cambrian Explosion. The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (2013). 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.

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