About Richard Fortey: Richard Alan Fortey is a British palaeontologist, writer and television presenter. He served as President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007.
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class aff...
Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perp...
You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.
