David Bainbridge is Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine's College. His many books include Paleontology: An Illustrated History and Stripped Bare: The Art of Animal Anatomy (both Princeton).
""This is a fascinating and informative book, acting as both a geology primer and an historical record of the science. . . . Superbly readable.""---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds