Richard Fortey

Richard Fortey is now a research associate at the Natural History Museum, having described his previous life there as a taxonomist in Dry Store Room No.1. He has just finished a book on ‘living fossils’.

In the LRB Archive:

• Sea Slugs, Wombats, Microbes: Species Seekers · 28 April 2011

  • The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth by Richard Conniff

• Tasty Butterflies: Entomologists · 24 September 2009

  • Bugs and the Victorians by J.F.M. Clark

• Hammers for Pipes: The Beginnings of Geology · 9 February 2006

  • Bursting the Limits of Time by Martin Rudwick

• Archaeology is Rubbish: The Last 20,000 Years · 18 December 2003

  • After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen

• Everything but the Glue: a Victorian sensation · 22 August 2002

  • Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ by James Secord

• Down to the Last Flea: resurrecting the mammoth · 23 May 2002

  • Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant by Richard Stone

• Prophet of the Rocks: William Smith · 9 August 2001

  • The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester

• They might be giants: classical palaeontology · 2 November 2000

  • The First Fossil Hunters: Palaeontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor

• No Such Thing as a Fish: cladistics · 6 July 2000

  • Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee

• Did the self-made man fake it with Bohemian fossils?: Jacques Deprat · 25 November 1999

  • The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina by Roger Osborne

• Most Curious of Seas: Noah’s Flood · 1 July 1999

  • Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman

• Shock Lobsters: The Burgess Shale · 1 October 1998

  • The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris

• Blow-Up · 2 October 1997

  • Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change by Richard Fisher, Grant Heiken and Jeffrey Hulen

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