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Donald Prothero

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American paleontologist, geologist, and author

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Donald Ross Prothero is an American geologist, paleontologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate changes which occurred 30-40 million years ago.

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2015Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
1991Charles Schuchert Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

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Donald Ross Prothero is an American geologist, paleontologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate changes which occurred 30-40 million years ago. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and over 300 scientific papers, including at least 5 geology textbooks.

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Born 1954 · age 72
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