Author Description

"Richard Fortey fell in love with trilobites when he held his first fossil and weighed up half a billion years' of history in his hands. He is one of Britain's leading popular scientists and the senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Musuem. In Trilobite! he uses the same grasp of detail and power of allusion he displayed in his previous book, An Unauthorised Biography to encourage all who read it to ponder the great cycles of earth history, the durability of stone compared with the transcience of human life, and the fecundity of evolution..."