Douglas Erwin

Douglas Erwin
Born	U.S.
Residence	United States
Nationality	United States
Fields	Paleontology Paleobiology
Institutions	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Santa Fe Institute
Alma mater	Colgate University University of California, Santa Barbara
Notable awards	Charles Schuchert Award

Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist and Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

He has written two books: Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago in 2006, and The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian in 1993. He co-wrote The Fossils of The Burgess Shale. He is co-editor on 3 books: Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective in 2000, Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine in 1996, and New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record in 1995.

References

• Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Biography
• Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift New York Times Essay by Douglas Erwin

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