Architects of Eternity – The new science of fossils. (book review)
Title :-Architects of Eternity – The new science of fossils.
By :- Richard Corfield
Published :- Headline book publishing, London (2001) Paperback (330 pages)
Outline;- A brief history of the people and the scientific collection of fossils, and dating. This was revolutionized through the early 1970’s with the mass spectrometer and oxygen isotope analysis etc. Systematic fossil records develop and refine the story of evolution, complicated by the mass extinction events. Then science takes another leap forward with the understanding of DNA and the micro lives of bacteria, virus and such.
A good read for geologists and such.