Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life by Roy Plotnick
English | January 4th, 2022 | ISBN: 0231195346 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 5.25 MB
Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. Museum visitors flock to exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The media reports on fossil discoveries and new clues to mass extinctions. Nonetheless, misconceptions abound: paleontologists are assumed to only be interested in dinosaurs and they are all too often pictured as bearded white men in battered cowboy hats.