Robinson has built a career crafting scientifically realistic novels that probe our deep prehistoric past, our crisis - wracked present and our possible interplanetary futures. (scientificamerican.com)
Hendrik Poinar and his father, George Poinar Jr., an insect pathologist with a penchant for amber, have spent their careers exploring portals to the prehistoric past — tracing species» appearances, movements, adaptations and extinctions. (discovermagazine.com)
They also celebrate the scientists, many of them NSF - funded, who persevered in the toughest of environments to wring new chapters from the planet's prehistoric past. (discovermagazine.com)