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Richard Fortey

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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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Hammers for Pipes · 9 February 2006

subscriber-only content Archaeology is Rubbish · 18 December 2003

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

subscriber-only content Everything but the Glue · 22 August 2002

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

subscriber-only content Down to the Last Flea · 23 May 2002

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

subscriber-only content Prophet of the Rocks · 9 August 2001

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

subscriber-only content They might be giants · 2 November 2000

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

Most Curious of Seas · 1 July 1999

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

Shock Lobsters · 1 October 1998

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

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive No Such Thing as a Fish · 6 July 2000

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

 not available in archive Did the self-made man fake it with Bohemian fossils? · 25 November 1999

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

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