Geological Magazine; March 2003; v. 140; no. 2;
p. 232-233; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756803247841
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BRUNTON, C. H. C., COCKS, L. R. M. & LONG, S. L. (eds) 2001. Brachiopods Past and Present.
Systematics Association Special Volume 63. xiii + 441 pp. London: copublished by Taylor & Francis with The Systematics Association. Price £80.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 748 40921 1.
Simon Conway Morris
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The editors foreword is exceedingly brief and also exceedingly forthright, as they remark: far more delegates [to the Millennium Brachiopod Congress] offered written papers than are published here, and this is because we wanted a structured book which would stand alone in its own right and not just a mishmash of symposium contributions linked only by the single word "brachiopod". How well, then, have they succeeded? At one level, well enough. The 41 chapters are gathered into five thematic sections, each with a short introduction. As such this book reveals the range and interests of the brachiopod specialists, which in their different ways demand expertise with high resolution electron microscopy and palaeoceanography.
The thematic structure certainly provides a useful structure, but this book has a more serious drawback which is simply for the most part the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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