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Joyce Richardson
Joyce Ravina Richardson (née Richards; 14 July 1923 – 13 October 2019) was a New Zealand palaeontologist. She specialised in the study of brachiopods in both New Zealand and Australia. Biography Joyce Ravina Richards was born in New Zealand on 14 July 1923. She studied zoology at the University of Otago and won the Parker Memorial Prize in 1945. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946, and a Master of Arts degree in 1949. In early 1949, she moved to Australia to take up a position at the University of Melbourne. She completed a PhD there in 1958 for her thesis, ''The cainozoic terebratuloid and terebratelloid brachiopoda of Australia''. She subsequently worked for the National Museum of Victoria, before returning to New Zealand to take up a position at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute. In 1977, Richardson won a grant from ''National Geographic'' to undertake an expedition to study brachiopods in the waters surrounding Stewart Island. The team included d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaeontology
Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geologic time, and assess the interactions between prehistoric organisms and their natural environment. While paleontological observations are known from at least the 6th century BC, the foundation of paleontology as a science dates back to the work of Georges Cuvier in 1796. Cuvier demonstrated evidence for the concept of extinction and how life of the past was not necessarily the same as that of the present. The field developed rapidly over the course of the following decades, and the French word ''paléontologie'' was introduced for the study in 1822, which was derived from the Ancient Greek word for "ancient" and words describing relatedness and a field of study. Further advances in the field accompanied the work of Charles Darwin who p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
