Donald R. Prothero is Chairman and Associate Professor of Geology at
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. He has been a Guggenheim
and NSF Fellow, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1991 received
the Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society for outstanding
paleontologist under the age of 40. He has authored or co-edited seven
books, including The Evolution of Perissodactyls (Oxford Univ. Press,
1989, co-edited with R.M. Schoch), Interpreting the Stratigraphic
Record (W.H. Freeman, 1990), Eocene-Oligocene Climactic and Biotic
Evolution (Princeton Univ. Press, 1992, co-edited with W.A. Berggren),
Evolution of the Earth (McGraw-Hill, 1993, with R.H. Dott), Paradise
Lost: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (Columbia Univ. Press, 1993),
Horns, Tusks, Hooves and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals and
Their Relatives (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993, with R.M. Schoch), and
The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994, co-edited with R.J. Emry). He is a
Technical Editor of Journal of Paleontology and Adjunct Editor of
Paleobiology.