Plotnick Explorers of Deep Time

Paleontologists and the History of Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55131-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field’s aims, methods, and possibilities, with an emphasis on the compelling personal stories of the scientists who have made it a career.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plotnick, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Deep Time
1. Those Who Know the Past
2. We Have the Best Questions
3. I’m Not Ross (or Indiana Jones)
Part II. Exploring Deep Time
4. Attending Marvels
5. Safe Places
6. Cool Toys
7. Big Data and the Big Picture
8. The Ends of the Worlds as We Know Them
9. Lessons for and from the Living
Part III. Explorers of Deep Time
10. The Education of a Paleontologist
11. Living in the Real World
12. The Face of Paleontology
13. The Third Reviewer
14. Conferring, Conversing, and Otherwise Hobnobbing
15. Fighting Over Scraps
Part IV. Deep Time and the Broad World
16. This Land Is Your Land, Your Fossil Is My Fossil
17. For the Love of Fossils
18. Presenting the Past
19. Those Who Do Not Know the Past
20. Drawing on the Past
21. The World of Paleontology
22. Last Thoughts: SWOT-ing at Paleontology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Plotnick is professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Paleontological Society.