What did palaeontologists achieve in the 1990s? Did they discover anything or just juggle old data and collect more of the same? An interesting way of gauging the answer to this question might be to leaf through Palaeobiology II, edited, on behalf of the Palaeontological Association, by Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther as a compilation of articles covering the breadth of palaeontology. This book comes eleven years after the same bodies published a similar enterprise: Palaeobiology – A Synthesis(1990), which was very well received at the time. It presented its readers with simple, clear articles, each written by...

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