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  Published
2010
  
  With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a
marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil
creatures.
  
  Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago.
As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth,
were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used
to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a
uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.
  
  From the Trade Paperback edition.
  
  Amazon.com Review
  
  With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his
status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural
History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize,
but Trilobite! is sure to receive even greater acclaim. Whereas Life took the reader on a whistle-stop tour of evolution
from start to present--a huge undertaking that necessarily granted little space to each time period or taxonomic
group--Trilobite! sees Fortey indulging in a whole book about his overriding paleontological passion, the long extinct
and enigmatic creatures of the title. The result is a joy.
  
  Trilobites--woodlicelike creatures that
dominated the world's oceans long before the time of the dinosaurs--are, arguably, the most beautiful animals that have
ever been chipped out of the fossil record. Fortey certainly seems to think so. His enthusiastic, almost loving
explanations of the anatomy, ecology, and long evolutionary history of these fascinating vanished creatures carry the
reader on an inspirational journey into the Earth's distant past. But the book is much more than a technical treatise on
trilobites. We learn about Fortey himself, his formative years as an amateur then professional paleontologist, about his
much-loved teachers and colleagues, and above all, about that strange but addictive pastime known as science. You may
not find arthropods as charming as Fortey does, but you will not fail to be charmed by the author. A delightful read.
--Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
  Since the age of 14, Fortey, now a
paleontologist and author (Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth), has been obsessed
with trilobites, which survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic
era. "Who are we johnny-come-latelies," he asks, "to label them as either 'primitive' or 'unsuccessful? I want to invest
the trilobite with all the glamour of the dinosaur and twice its endurance." That's a tall order, since the curiously
shelled arthropod, whose closest living relative is the horseshoe crab, is quite disadvantaged in popular appeal when
compared to that of your typical 80-ton brontosaurus and company. Although trilobites hold some fascinationDthey lived
symbiotically, came in various morphologies and bore crystal eyes and segmented shells that let them roll up like
armadillosDthey are very hard to warm up to (one look at the cover of this book will prove the point). More problematic,
however, is that Fortey seems unsure how to structure the book. He rhapsodizes at length about the biology of
trilobites, but as if to soften the presentation for the general reader, he frequently digresses to more narrative
elements. He tells personal stories, relates anecdotes about important trilobite researchers and offers his opinion on
numerous related topics, such as why the Cambrian explosion wasn't an explosion at all. Ultimately, these elements
cohere more into a patchwork of facts and concerns rather than a crisp narrative of scientific wonder and discovery.
Readers may be drawn by the popularity of Fortey's Life but they will be disappointed by this latest effort. 40 illus.
(Nov. 6) 
  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. 						

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