The Story of the Earth and Man

Fourteen essays on how paleontology reached the public, from Victorian museum halls to Gertie the Dinosaur and Jurassic Park. It shows how the science of deep time turned into popular culture, and what that did back to the science.

Chris Manias

A full outline of paleontological science organized by geological period. Nicholson walks the fossil record forward from the Cambrian, explaining what each layer of strata holds and how it is read.

H. Alleyne Nicholson

Huxley's popular lectures on evolution, fossils and geologic time, written to be understood without a science degree. His essay on the method of Zadig is still one of the clearest accounts of how a paleontologist reasons from a bone to an animal.

Thomas Henry Huxley