Best of '95

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Here is the first nomination for the Best Paleo of 1995. You can send in
your nominations to me or (better yet) post them to PaleoNet. I'll collect
them and post them on The PaleoNet Pages right after New Years. Don't be
shy about posting your favorites. Paleontology is just too big a field for
any one person to keep track of, yet we all want to keep up with the best
work that is going on in areas outside our own.

Norm MacLeod



>From: "ERIC ANDERSON" <IHMA@guppy.ru.ac.za>
>To: N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk
>Date:          Wed, 20 Dec 1995 10:47:19 GMT+0200
>Subject:       Best of '95
>Priority: normal
>Status: O
>
>Dr. MacLeod:
>
>For your "Best of..." I nominate a book, "The Rise of Fishes," by John
>A. Long, Western Australian Museum, Perth; Univ. NSW Press, Sydney,
>223 pp.
>
>Although written for the scientific layman, it's going to be useful
>as a supplement in tertiary classes, even at the graduate level. It's
>genius is it's enthusiastic writing style AND its author's knowing
>full well when to stop detailing scientific evidence in order to keep
>readers awake. Like to see Stephen Hawking try that. Also: mistakes
>are few.
>
>---Dr. Eric Anderson
>   JLB Smith Institute
>   Grahamstown, RSA
>   ihma@guppy.ru.ac.za
>



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