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247 A B O U T T H E C O N T R I B U T O R S warren d. allmon is the director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, NY, and the Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. He earned his A.B. in Earth sciences from Dartmouth College in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Earth and atmospheric sciences from Harvard University in 1988. Since 1992, he has been instrumental in rejuvenating PRI’s internationally known fossil collections; in starting its local, regional, and national programs in Earth science education; and in planning and fundraising for the Museum of the Earth, PRI’s $11 million education and exhibit facility that opened in September 2003. Allmon is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the recipient of the 2004 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of Geoscience from the American Geological Institute. david w. goldsmith is associate professor of geology and paleontology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he teaches paleontology as well as the history and philosophy of science. He received his undergraduate degree from Colgate and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His paleontological research focuses on the morphology and ecology of Molluscs. He is also interested in scientific epistemology and the history of evolutionary theory. Presently he is studying the distribution of Recent gastropods on the shores of Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border. timothy h. heaton is professor of geology and chair of the Department of Earth Sciences and Physics at the University of South Dakota. He earned his bachelor’s 248 · a b o u t t h e c o n t r i b u t o r s degree from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in Earth and atmospheric sciences from Harvard University. His research projects include investigations of ice age vertebrates in southeast Alaska, Quaternary paleontology of the Great Basin, and Tertiary rodents of western North America. patricia h. kelley is professor of geology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She received her undergraduate degree from College of Wooster and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her interests include the tempo and mode of evolution and the role of biological factors such as predation in evolution, which she investigates using coastal plain mollusc fossils. Dr. Kelley has authored or coauthored over forty refereed papers and has edited three books, including one on evolution and creationism . She is a former president of the Paleontological Society. In 2003 she received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Women Geoscientists. She is currently a distinguished speaker on the topic of evolution and creationism for the Paleontological Society and National Association of Geoscience Teachers. keith b. miller is research assistant professor of geology at Kansas State University. He earned his B.A. in geology from Franklin and Marshall College and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Miller is editor of Perspectives on an Evolving Creation (2003, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI), an anthology of essays on evolution by Christian scholars. He is also a board member of the Kansas Citizens for Science, a not-for-profit educational organization that promotes a better understanding of science. charles e. mitchell is SUNY distinguished teaching professor at SUNY, Buffalo. He earned his Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1983. Mitchell studies graptolites from the Ordovician Period, and he is motivated by a desire to understand the evolutionary processes that have formed the world in which we live and that have given shape to its history. He approaches his subject by testing specific hypotheses using quantitative means whenever possible but also keeps sight of the unique properties of biological and geological phenomena. donald r. prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in geological sciences from Columbia University in 1982, and a B.A. in geology and biology from the University of California , Riverside. He is currently the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twentyone books and almost two hundred scientific papers, including five leading geology textbooks and three trade books, as well as edited symposium volumes and other technical works. He is on the editorial board of Skeptic magazine and in the past has [3.128...

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