Douglas Erwin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Douglas Erwin

paleobiologist, curator, professor, author

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1958

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Profession: paleontologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.