Olivier Rieppel
Autor(a) de Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution (Life of the Past)
About the Author
Olivier Rieppel is Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum in Chicago. He is author of Turtles as Hopeful Monsters; Origins and Evolution.
Obras de Olivier Rieppel
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-09-21
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 40
- Popularidade
- #370,100
- Avaliação
- 2.3
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 1
Rieppel eventually does get back to turtles, and the long-running controversies about their history, fueled by a simple lack of good fossils. That might have been another point the author could have played up: It doesn't matter how good your analysis is if you simply lack data to process. The question being whether turtles are a very old form of reptile, or whether their emergence occurs much later, at about the same time as the dinosaurs. It wasn't until the great Chinese fossil boom that the long missing "intermediate" forms were discovered (one species of which graces the cover art), and which backed up the statistical and genetic analysis which suggested that turtles are a relatively recent arrival on the scene.
With all that said I really can't recommend this work, which probably needed more hard-headed editing.… (mais)