In which Joe Madison discusses new avenues of research on the role of microbes in metazoan macroevolution
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The Case of the Mislabeled Axis
In which Corey Dethier explores the meaning of scientific graphs and revisits the John Christy climate controversy
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Ancient Plates and Pirate Anchors: When Should we Treat Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence?
In which Matt Brewer discusses the (geological!) origin of the phrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and considers arguments from absence in contemporary paleogeology
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Extraterrestrial Epistemology, or the Limits of Archives
In which Joel Jensen delves into the epistemology of archiving and the role of landscapes in transmitting cultural knowledge
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When Will Scientific Disagreement Bear Fruit? The Case of Angiosperm Origins
In which Katherine Valde uses angiosperms to explore when scientific controversies can be expected to bear fruit (lol)— or fail to
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Red Ochre and Moon Cycles: Interpreting Bodily Adornment in Prehistory
In which Marilynn Johnson shares an edited excerpt from her recent book Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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