User:Neale Monks
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Trained as a palaeontologist, working primarily on the functional morphology and phylogeny of heteromorph ammonites. Now primarily a freelance writer, specialising in aquarium fish and home computing.
Co-author of the Natural History Museum's Ammonites book, part of the Living Past series and aimed at students, amateur fossil collectors, and non-professionals with an interest in these interesting fossils. Also written an introductory textbook on cladistic methods for use with Skelton & Smith's Cladistics : A Practical Primer on CD-ROM, published by Cambridge University Press. A third book, on the use of computers in amateur astronomy, was published by Springer Verlag in 2005.
Also writes for AppleLust [1] (http://www.applelust.com/) and MyMac.com [2] (http://mymac.com/) about Mac software and news, and maintains the Brackish Water Aquarium FAQ [3] (http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/fishkeeping.html).
Personal web page: [4] (http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/)