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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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!
Read MoreConsciousness and Paleobiological Laws: E. D. Cope as Philosopher
Edward Drinker Cope is mostly famous for his fossil-hungry rivalry with Othaniel Charles Marsh, but did you know that he had a theory of consciousness and published in The Monist? In this fascinating post, Trever Pearce invites us to consider Cope as a philosopher...
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