Douglas Erwin

{{short description|American paleontologist}}

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| birth_place = U.S.

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| nationality = American

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| field = Paleontology
Paleobiology

| work_institutions = Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Santa Fe Institute

| alma_mater = Colgate University
University of California, Santa Barbara

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| prizes = Charles Schuchert Award {{small|(1996)}}

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}}Douglas Hamilton Erwin (born 1958) is a paleobiologist, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Chair of the Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cell.com/current-biology/editorial-board|title=Advisory board: Current Biology}}

He has written two books: Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago in 2006, and The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian in 1993. He co-wrote The Fossils of The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian Explosion. The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (2013). He is co-editor on 3 books: Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective in 2000, Evolutionary Paleobiology: Essays in Honor of James W. Valentine in 1996, and New Approaches to Speciation in the Fossil Record in 1995.