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By: Remnants Of Ancient Life: The New Science Of Old Fossils - 3 Quarks Daily

Remnants Of Ancient Life: The New Science Of Old Fossils - 3 Quarks Daily — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:09:10 +0000

[…] ancient biomolecules; think of them as the other fossil evidence. Having just reviewed Jones’s Ancient DNA which gave an intellectual history of this young scientific discipline, I now turn to Dale E. […]

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By: Book review – Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:32:52 +0000

[…] biomolecules; think of them as the other fossil evidence. Having just reviewed Jones’s Ancient DNA which gave an intellectual history of this young scientific discipline, I now turn to Dale E. […]

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By: Book review – Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined – and Redefined – Nature | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:53:24 +0000

[…] time capsules have given us astounding insights and although a history of the research field is still forthcoming, Shapiro already gives you a taster. Her book is divided into two parts, one looking at our past […]

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By: Book review – Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:52:05 +0000

[…] would write about blocks of hardened rat pee). Trace fossils can also be potential sources of ancient DNA. Finally, there are various palaeoclimatological proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, and others […]

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By: Book review – The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:50:19 +0000

[…] developments, still in their infancy when the first edition was written, allow the analysis of ancient DNA (i.e. DNA recovered from long-dead human remains). These have convincingly shown the presence of Y. […]

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