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Fossils: The Key to the Past
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"Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers."—Bill Bryson
Reviews of previous editions—
"Fossils is authoritative and attractive; it contains especially good sections on 'bringing fossils to life,' on extinction, on the early life of the Precambrian and Cambrian, and on the use of microfossils in stratigraphy."—Nature
"Fortey's book is original in that it views the fossils as a product of the continuously changing earth. The text flows well and is written with confidence and in a ple...