title: David M. Raup (1933-2015).
authors.affiliation: department of palaeobiology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. He met David Raup in 1983 at University of Chicago as a terrified graduate student, and later worked with him at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.
authors.forename: Douglas H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Erwin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D005580:Fossils; D005844:Geology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008954:Models, Biological; D010163:Paleontology / Q000266:history*; D010507:Periodicity; D014481:United States