In which Max examines two attempts to use Mars to better understand the past and future of Earth, respectively
Read MoreIs Contemporary Climate Change Really Unprecedented?
In which Aja Watkins explores the problem of comparing past and present rates of climate change, and the challenges involved in “temporal scaling”
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Lords of Marble and the Spear
In which Max asks what an argument for repatriating a fossil might look like in the absence of demonstrable illegality in the acquisition of that fossil
Read MoreSizing up the "Biodiversity Crisis": Paleocurves, Measurements, and Problematic Inferences
In which Federica Bocchi considers the problems involved in comparing past and present measures of diversity, and their implications for the “biodiversity crisis.”
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The Trouble with Ancestors
In which Max debuts the doomed format of the “partial book review.” The subject: Chapter 10 of Ronald Jenner’s book, Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology
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Hugh Miller, Misplaced Boulders, and a Challenge for “Historical Cognitivism”
In which Max argues that an obscure Scottish geologist causes trouble for the position Derek Turner calls “historical cognitivism” in aesthetics
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