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Dating Methods | Evolutionary Biology Blog
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News, Facts, and Opinions. This post is intended to be a high-level summary of the. Ar dating process. It is intended to introduce students and ohter interested parties to the process and provide basic information about it. Argon-Argon dating, often referred to as. Ar for its actual decay parameters, is a form of radiometric dating used in geology and paleontology. The process was developed to provide more accurate dating results than the Potassium-Argon (. Ar differs from the. K The sample then is degas...
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Oldest Bird Found in China? | Evolutionary Biology Blog
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News, Facts, and Opinions. Oldest Bird Found in China? A very interesting article about the new bird/dinosaur relative Aurornis xui. Was published this week in the British journal. It can be found at the Nature News Web site, here: http:/ www.nature.com/news/new-contender-for-first-bird-1.13088. The article states that Godefroit believes that. Godefroit goes on to say, “But these sorts of hypotheses are very controversial. We’re at the origins of a group. The differences between birds and [...This articl...
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Three-Billion-Year-Old Plankton Found in Australia | Evolutionary Biology Blog
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News, Facts, and Opinions. Three-Billion-Year-Old Plankton Found in Australia. The Farrel Quartzite formation in Western Australia has yielded a group of both spheroid and spindle-like microfossils believed to be planktonic organisms. At 3 billion years old, they are some of the oldest fossils ever found. According to a study in the June issue of the journal. The report points out that if this interpretation of the fossils is correct, then they represent the remains of a “cosmopolitan” biolog...An excell...
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Books | Evolutionary Biology Blog
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News, Facts, and Opinions. This page contains books that may be of interest to people who like evolution and paleontology. The links open a separate tab and display the Amazon.com page with the book’s information. Book descriptions are taken directly from the Amazon.com site. Books on Evolution for the General Public. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. Why do we look the way we do? Your Inner Fish makes ...
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The Boneyard Blog Carnival: March 2011
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Saturday, March 26, 2011. After the April 5 edition of the Boneyard at Sorting Out Science, we're hostless. If you host a blog about paleontology or a related science, or general science, or science history, or science-art, what the heck? Here's how it works. A little before the new edition is set to run, I call for entries. You should, too. There's no magic formula as far as how often to ask, where to ask (I mainly use this blog, Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs. Fun fun fun fun. May 3: Life As We Know It.
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