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xii PREFACE

(Copenhagen), Mike Bassett (Cardiff), Joseph Botting (London), Simon Braddy (Bristol), Pat
Brenchley (formerly Liverpool), Derek Briggs (Yale), David Bruton (Oslo), Graham Budd
(Uppsala), Nick Butterfi eld (Cambridge), Sandra Carlson (Davis), David Catling (Bristol),
Margaret Collinson (London), John Cope (Cardiff), Gilles Cuny (Copenhagen), Kristi Curry
Rogers (Minnesota), Phil Donoghue (Bristol), Karen Dybkjær (Copenhagen), Howard Falcon-
Lang (Bristol), Mike Foote (Chicago), Liz Harper (Cambridge), John Hutchinson (London), Paul
Kenrick (London), Andy Knoll (Harvard), Bruce Liebermann (Kansas), Maria Liljeroth
(Copenhagen), David Loydell (Portsmouth), Duncan McIlroy (St John’s), Paddy Orr (Dublin),
Alan Owen (Glasgow), Kevin Padian (Berkeley), Kevin Peterson (Dartmouth), Emily Rayfi eld
(Bristol), Ken Rose (New York), Marcello Ruta (Bristol), Martin Sander (Bonn), Andrew Smith
(London), Paul Taylor (London), Richard Twitchett (Plymouth), Charlie Wellman (Sheffi eld),
Paul Wignall (Leeds), Rachel Wood (Edinburgh), Graham Young (Winnipeg) and Jeremy Young
(London).
We are grateful to Ian Francis and Delia Sanderson together with Stephanie Schnur and Rosie
Hayden for steering this book to completion, and to Jane Andrew for copy editing and to Mirjana
Misina for guiding the editorial process. Last, but not least, we thank our wives, Mary and
Maureen, for their help and forbearance.
Mike Benton
David Harper
February 2008

TYPES OF BOXES

Throughout the text you will find special topic boxes. There are five types of boxes, each
with a distinguishing icon:

Hot topics/debates

Paleobiological tool

Exceptional and new discoveries

Quantitative methods

Cladogram/classifi cation