Douglas Erwin

Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Chair of the Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Board for "Current Biology".
He has written two books: "Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago" in 2006, and "The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian" in 1993. He co-wrote "The Fossils of The Burgess Shale" and "The Cambrian Explosion. The Construction of Animal Biodiversity" (2013). He is co-editor on 3 books: "Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective" in 2000, "Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine" in 1996, and "New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record" in 1995.