Douglas Erwin
American paleontologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Douglas Hamilton Erwin (born 1958) 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 is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.[1]
Douglas H. Erwin | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Colgate University University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Awards | Charles Schuchert Award (1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology Paleobiology |
| Institutions | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 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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