Distinctions
- 1999 — Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2000 — Premio Capo d'Orlando (Italian prize for paleontology
- 2000 — Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London
- 2001 — Boyle Medal, Royal Dublin Society/Irish Times
- 2002–2004 — President, Palaeontological Association
- 2003 — Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2003 — President Elect, Paleontological Society
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“Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols—it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.”
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