Richard Fortey





Richard Fortey

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Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. His books have been widely acclaimed: Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Knopf) was short-listed for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1998, and Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Knopf) was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. His latest book, Earth: An Intimate History (Knopf, 2004), has been called "dazzling," "remarkable," "splendid," and "important and timely."


Average rating: 3.94 · 2,122 ratings · 303 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors
Life: A Natural History of ...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1997
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Ev...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
Dry Store Room No. 1: The S...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions
Earth: An Intimate History
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet ...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Survivors; the Animals and ...
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Landscape: A Jou...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
Fossils: The History of Life
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009
Fossils: The Key to the Past
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
Arthropod Relationships
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997
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“You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.”
Richard Fortey

“I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums. ”
Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

“A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators. ”
Richard Fortey, Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum

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