TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plotnick, Roy
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
PB  - Columbia University Press
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Paleontologists
KW  - Paleontologists-Biography
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Paleontology-Methodology
KW  - SCIENCE / Paleontology
AB  - Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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 Li -- 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 Hob -- 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
SN  - 9780231551311
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551311
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231551311/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/plot19534
DO  - 10.7312/plot19534
LA  - English
N1  - Roy Plotnick
ID  - 1795231572
ER  -