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Did the self-made man fake it with Bohemian fossils?

Richard Fortey

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Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.

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