It’s about time for a new approach to telling the basic palaeontological
story of the main invertebrate groups and their fossil record, putting it into a
wider context for an undergraduate readership. Here it is: Understanding Fossils
by Peter Doyle (Wiley, £17.99, ISBN 0 471 96351 8).
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