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Explorers of deep time : paleontologists and the history of life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plotnick, Roy E. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Paleontology > Methodology.
Paleontologists > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Those who know the past
  • We have the best questions
  • I'm not Ross (or Indiana Jones)
  • Attending marvels
  • Safe places
  • Cool toys
  • Big data and the big picture
  • The ends of the worlds as we know them
  • Lessons for and from the living
  • The education of a paleontologist
  • Living in the real world
  • The face of paleontology
  • The third reviewer
  • Conferring, conversing, and otherwise hobnobbing
  • Fighting over scraps
  • This land is your land, your fossil is my fossil
  • For the love of fossils
  • Presenting the past
  • Those who do not know the past
  • Drawing on the past
  • The world of paleontology
  • Last thoughts : SWOT-ing at paleontology.