Douglas Erwin

Douglas Hamilton Erwin (born 1958) 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. Provided by Wikipedia