About the author:

Whereas some people are in the life-saving business, paleo metal devotee Mats E. Eriksson is in the death-saving business, meaning that he sure loves his fossils. He was born in 1972 and works as a professor of paleontology at Lund University, Sweden. He chiefly studies creatures from the Paleozoic Era and tries to recon­struct and understand these ancient organisms and their interrelationship to the surrounding physical environment. His research is, or has been, funded primar­ily by the Swedish Research Council, the Crafoord Foundation and the Nation­al Geographic Society. Besides research and teaching, Eriksson has a profound interest in scientific outreach, which is manifested through audiovisual art, oral presentations, as well as regularly writing popular science pieces for journals in both English and Swedish. He loves contrasts in life and adores it when differ­ent disciplines - such as science, arts, and popular culture - amalgamate, while he wholeheartedly loathes hypocrisy (although not Peter Tägtgren's eponymous death metal band). Eriksson lives with his family in Malmö, Sweden, and nurtures a dream of sometime being fossilized himself, albeit - for several reasons - in a very distant future.

Some quotes about the book and the author:

"I never knew I cared about binomial nomenclature until I read the author's work. Yes, that is a compliment."
(Alex Dontre, Psychostick)

"Read Charles R. Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"? Enjoyed Stephen J. Gould's "Wonderful Life"? Well, then it is time for you to embrace the next milestone-publication that deals with the history of life on Earth, namely Mats E. Eriksson's "Another Primordial Day"!"
(Associate Professor Johan Lindgren, Lund University)

"It should be obvious that a man, like Mats E. Eriksson, who has dedicated his professional life to searching for the remaining corpses of long dead creatures, is addicted to death metal. However, the realization that heavy metal and science can be combined continuously attracts interest from the press worldwide. Thank God for that, as it keeps our "Rock Fossils" traveling exhibition on the road."
(Esben Horn, 10 Tons, Copenhagen)

"The author is widely known as a specialist on the relations between 'rock and rock' (rock music and geology)."
(Professor Emeritus Stig M. Bergström, The Ohio State University)

"This professor is a big King Diamond fan, and in our eyes, he is most certainly one of the coolest!"
(Livia Zita-Bendix, King Diamond)

"A marvellous display in the art of finding concordance between two seemingly disparate topics"
(Dr. Fredrik Terfelt, Lund University)

"This book is an excellent piece of work."
(Professor Emeritus Bill Ausich, The Ohio State University)


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