"Detailed and in-depth investigation of the important but often unappreciated work done by science technicians, in this case in the context of paleontology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely. Those awe-inspiring dinosaur skeletons on display in museums do not spring fully assembled from the earth. Technicians known as preparators have painstakingly removed the fossils from rock, repaired broken bones, and reconstructed missiā¦