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PopPalaeo Workshop II, Talk 12: Darren Naish, Reviewing the Reviews

The vastness of the vertebrate fossil record literature makes any effort to review it in entirety a difficult task; ‘a review’ is understood to be a work that discusses the evolution and diversity of a group, incorporating knowledge on taxonomy, morphology, ecology and distribution, with representative illustrations. Reviews of the vertebrate record have been designed with teaching in mind and focus on groups, trends and processes deemed of interest to students. As goes specific reviews, some groups (Mesozoic dinosaurs in particular) are frequently reviewed; others are afflicted by association with idiosyncratic authors and others are woefully under-represented. Information on vertebrate palaeontologists themselves is scattered. Several excellent volumes are prohibitively expensive. If we are truly interested in the democratisation of knowledge, we have some way to go yet. Darren Naish is a zoologist, palaeontologist and author affiliated with the University of Southampton (UK), best known for his work on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs. His most recent books include Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (with Paul Barrett) and Evolution in Minutes. He blogs at Tetrapod Zoology Paper delivered at "Popularizing Palaeontology, Workshop II," in December 2017 at King's College London. For more information, please check out www.poppalaeo.com The vastness of the vertebrate fossil record literature makes any effort to review it in entirety a difficult task; ‘a review’ is understood to be a work that discusses the evolution and diversity of a group, incorporating knowledge on taxonomy, morphology, ecology and distribution, with representative illustrations. Reviews of the vertebrate record have been designed with teaching in mind and focus on groups, trends and processes deemed of interest to students. As goes specific reviews, some groups (Mesozoic dinosaurs in particular) are frequently reviewed; others are afflicted by association with idiosyncratic authors and others are woefully under-represented. Information on vertebrate palaeontologists themselves is scattered. Several excellent volumes are prohibitively expensive. If we are truly interested in the democratisation of knowledge, we have some way to go yet. Darren Naish is a zoologist, palaeontologist and author affiliated with the University of Southampton (UK), best known for his work on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs. His most recent books include Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (with Paul Barrett) and Evolution in Minutes. He blogs at Tetrapod Zoology