Re: Nature of the fossil record

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

Mickey Rowe replied:

"For the record, I don't think he was actually a paleontology major (I
could well be wrong, but what institutions actually offer paleontology
as a major anyways?), but he does have a longstanding interest in
fossils in general and dinosaurs in particular (according to
Newsweek)."

True enough--specialization within biology or geology would be more likely,
if he tried it academically.  Berkeley, I think, was the only place with a
paleo department and major, and we got subsumed into Integrative Biology in
1989 to save bucks (you can specialize in paleo still).   I judge from his
retoric that Newt was never a Berkeley student!!!


Jere H. Lipps
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Director, Museum of Paleontology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-9006 fax 642-1822
jlipps@ucmp1.berkeley.edu