<br>Martin Brasier, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford <br>Martin Brasier is an English paleontologist made known from his study of microfossils, the Origin of Life, and Precambrian fossils such as the Ediacara biota. He is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Oxford. He has worked on the Cambrian Explosion and was leader of the UN 's IGCP project on defining the Cambrian geological period. His own book on the subject, Darwin's Lost World: The hidden history of animal life was published in 2009 as part of the Charles Darwin centenary. <br>
Bursting with almost boyish enthusiasm, Brasier takes us on an adventure with lively vignettes from his career. * Henry Nicholls, New Scientist *