by Éric Buffetaut · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447302420
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«Fósiles y hombres» is the popular science essay by Éric Buffetaut, in paperback (337 pages, in Spanish).
The book traces the path from the fascination with fossils to the consolidation of paleontology as a science, recounting the main milestones that have made it possible to reconstruct the remote past of life on Earth.
This work is number 16 in the Biblioteca de Divulgación Científica Muy Interesante collection, in a 1993 edition, with translation and adaptation by Pedro Gálvez.
Recommended for readers interested in paleontology and the history of science.
Éric Buffetaut is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research. Buffetaut is a specialist of fossil archosaurs, mainly dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and has published many books on paleontology. He is one of the major paleontologists to support the thesis of the fall of a meteorite as the main cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
