In which we look back at six months of new content on Extinct (with lots more to come!)
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How to Change Your Life Using Punctuated Equilibria
In the first part of a three-part installment of “Problematica,” Max examines what Stephen Jay Gould was up to on the eve of “Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism” (1972), and introduces an interpretive puzzle
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Stray Thoughts on Contingency Following the MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar
In which Max reflects on the recent MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar on historical contingency in biology
Read MoreStable Isotopes in Unstable Times: Harold Urey’s paleothermometer and the nature of proxy measurement
In which Joe Wilson describes the invention of the carbonate-oxygen paleothermometer, and explores what it means for our understanding of “proxy measurement”
Read MoreFrom the Archive: Replaying Life's Tape— No Miracles Required
In which we reach into the Extinct archive, and pull out an essay on historical contingency by John Beatty
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History, Kindness, and the Great Evolutionary Faunas
In which Max considers a recent account of historical natural kinds, and force-feeds it the example of the “great evolutionary faunas”
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