In which Joe Wilson describes the invention of the carbonate-oxygen paleothermometer, and explores what it means for our understanding of “proxy measurement”
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In which Aja Watkins explores the problem of comparing past and present rates of climate change, and the challenges involved in “temporal scaling”
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.”
Read MoreRethinking Living Fossils
Just what makes a living fossil a living fossil? In this post, Scott Lidgard and Alan Love argue: it depends what you’re trying to study…
Read MoreGlastonbury: today, tomorrow, 2,250 years ago
Alison Wylie and Bob Chapman ask how much we can know from the archaeological record by casting an eye across the history of Glastonbury, from the mustic festival, to the millenia-old village, to the story of the excavations themselves.
Read MoreBringing Evolution to the Masses: Disney’s Fantasia as History of Biology
Is Disney's Fantasia just a beautiful peice of cinema? Not so, says Charles Pence: Fantastia should be thought of as an important moment in the history of the biological sciences!
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