Trilobite, Eyewitness to Evolution

I recently read Trilobite, Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey, 2001. I found it to be a delightful read and I learned all sorts of new things about these fascinating fossil creatures and the worlds they inhabited for 300 million years. Many thousands of species have been described and more are being discovered every year.Trilobites have played a major role in paleontology and have been used as index fossils correlating the ages of geological layers around the globe.They range in size from larger than lobsters to only a couple millimeters in length. As would be expected in a group that lasted that long the amount of variation is staggering; all the way from blind to calcium carbonate crystal for lenses in the faceted eyes, from plain and unadorned to covered with all sorts and shapes of spines.Fortey writes as much about the world they live in as about the trilobites themselves, the other sorts of life they shared the seas with. He uses his own experiences on expeditions of discovery around the world to tell the stories of the fossils and the types and locations of geological formations they are found in today and what those habitats were like when these creatures lived.He was a contemporary with Gould and Eldredge and describes how Eldredge's study of trilobites led him to the concept of Punctuated Equilibrium. He also explains Gould's errors in Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History in a way I had never understood before.Fortey tells an engrossing tale and describes the same excitement of discovery that I have experienced and observed in my colleagues in the study of dragonflies.I can recommend this book to anyone looking for an interesting read this winter.

Thanks for the warning. I will never let you spoil me through your philosophy or your vain deceit. Now piss off.

We have seen from your participation here at EvC that your understanding of every single scientific subject you have argued about is not only miniscule, but completely incorrect.If God is guiding your understanding you should ask for your money back.I posted this information about a book that I really enjoyed and learned a lot from. If you don't want to read it or don't want to learn anything that's fine, but the subject has nothing to do with your god.

So, like always, you don't read a book on Trilobites, you just spread around a bunch of BS, and, as always, cannot support anything you say with evidence and, as always, you don't have the energy to bother.Then why don't you piss off, since you don't have the energy to bother? Who gives a shit what you can't be bothered to say? No meaningful argument but you just can't shut up.