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Title: Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 5, Issue 1
The editorial board and sponsors of Palaeontologia Electronica are
pleased to announce the release of Volume 5, Issue 1, which can be
accessed free of charge at:

http://palaeo-electronica.org/

The table of contents for PE5.1 is listed below. Of particular
interest in this issue are two articles focusing on new imaging techniques: Michael Knappertsbusch's contribution on stereographic digital photomicrographic techniques and Øyvind Hammer and others' article on the uses of reflectance transformations. Both of these techniques substantially expand the palette of procedures that can be used by paleontologists to present images of their fossils. Add to these, cutting-edge technical articles by Michael Polcyn and others on the CT analysis of a Dominican Anole preserved in amber (see issue cover), and by David Lazarus on the environmental control of Antarctic radiolarian diversity, an expanded offering of editorials, an expanded book-review section, along with our regular summaries of the best of on-line paleontology, and we think you'll agree that Palaeontologia Electronica 5.1 presents something of interest for every paleontologist.

Come see the future of paleontology (at a web browser near you)!

Norm MacLeod & Whitey Hagadorn
Executive Editors, Palaeontologia Electronica


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Palaeontologia Electronica
Volume 5, Issue 1
ISSN 1094-8074

 
MOVING FINGERS
From the Executive Editors
Norm MacLeod and Whitey Hagadorn


EDITORIALS

THE ICONOCLAST
Reclaiming Evolution for the Fossils
Graham Budd

INTO FOCUS
How to get a Reputation in Paleontology! A Twelve-Step Program
Jere H. Lipps

ON THE HORIZON
Early Life, Science, and Wrestling
Stefan Bengtson

OUR READERS WRITE TO US
Letters

ARTICLES
Computed Tomography of an Anolis Lizard in Dominican Amber: Systematic, Taphonomic, Biogeographic, and Evolutionary Implications
Michael J. Polcyn, Jack V. Rogers II , Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, and Louis L. Jacobs
Environmental Control of Diversity, Evolutionary Rates and Taxa Longevities in Antarctic Neogne Radiolaria
David B. Lazarus
Stereographic Virtual Reality Representations of Microfossils in Light Microscopy
Michael W. Knappertsbusch
Imaging Fossils Using Reflectance Transformation and Interactive Manipulation of Virtual Light Sources
Øyvind Hammer, Stefan Bengtson, Tom Malzbender, and Dan Gelb
PE NOTES: Within each article are links in the contents column to material that may be of further use to specific readers. There is a plain-language summary that is presented as text and in an oral version. There are multiple versions of the abstract in English, Français, Español, Italiano, and Deutsche. The English abstract is also presented in an oral version. Acrobat PDF versions of the articles are available (click on PDF beside the title) or from the contents column within the individual articles.


REVIEWS

TECHNICAL BOOKS
The Age of the Earth: from 4004 BC to AD 2002
Edited by C.L.E. Lewis and S.J. Knell
Reviewer: Ian C. Johnston

The Armored Dinosaurs
by Kenneth Carpenter (ed.)
Reviewer: Peter Makovicky

The Map That Changed the World:
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by Simon Winchester
Reviewer: Ben Waggoner

Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
by Darren Tanke and Kenneth Carpenter (eds.)
Reviewer: John R. Hutchinson


POPULAR BOOKS
Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky
by Jack Horner
Reviewer: Fred Shochet

Time Traveler:
In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
by Michael Novacek
Reviewer: Mike Everhart

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
by Barbara Kerley; illustrated by Brian Selznick
Reviewer: Jennifer Collins
RESOURCES

Web Site Annotations
by P. Dave Polly
Paleontological and related web sites.
Paleontology newsletters and related electronic journals.

Teaching Resources
by P. Dave Polly
Sites for teachers and students in primary and secondary schools.

Contents 
A list of items available in this issue available in Acrobat PDF format for easier printing.

Suggested Form of Citation
How to cite articles, editorials, and book reviews appearing in this issue.
Index of Palaeontologia Electronica Volumes
Alphabetical list of articles
Alphabetical list of authors

Nomenclature Statement
How Palaeontologia Electronica fulfills the requirements for the publication of formal taxonomy.

Archive Information
Information regarding repository libraries.
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Copyright: Coquina Press
30 August 2002
http://palaeo-electronica.org

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The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

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(0)20-7942-5546 (Fax)

Web Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/palaeontology/a&ss/nm/nm.html

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