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The artist and the scientists : bringing prehistory to life

by Peter Trusler, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich

This work documents a thirty-year collaboration between palaeontologists and a scientific artist to reconstruct 600 million years of evolutionary history. It examines the process of recording prehistoric life through global field research and scientific realism.

Accession 18604 ISBN 9780521162999 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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