Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PART I. DEEP TIME 1
4. 1. Those Who Know the Past 3
5. 2. We Have the Best Questions 8
6. 3. I’m Not Ross (or Indiana Jones) 17
7. PART II. EXPLORING DEEP TIME
8. 4. Attending Marvels 27
9. 5. Safe Places 50
10. 6. Cool Toys 67
11. 7. Big Data and the Big Picture 81
12. 8. The Ends of the Worlds as We Know Them 95
13. 9. Lessons for and from the Li 108
14. PART III. EXPLORERS OF DEEP TIME
15. 10. The Education of a Paleontologist 127
16. 11. Living in the Real World 139
17. 12. The Face of Paleontology 150
18. 13. The Third Reviewer 167
19. 14. Conferring, Conversing, and Otherwise Hob 183
20. 15. Fighting Over Scraps 195
21. PART IV. DEEP TIME AND THE BROAD WORLD
22. 16. This Land Is Your Land, Your Fossil Is My Fossil 209
23. 17. For the Love of Fossils 227
24. 18. Presenting the Past 234
25. 19. Those Who Do Not Know the Past 247
26. 20. Drawing on the Past 253
27. 21. The World of Paleontology 264
28. 22. Last Thoughts: SWOT-ing at Paleontology 278
29. Acknowledgments 285
30. Notes 287
31. Index 321