21Dec 2020 by Post

Grandeur in Extinctions?

Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Carboniferous Period, Charles Darwin, Creative Destruction, Darwinian evolution, Darwinians, Earth-Life Science Institute, ecospace, Evolution, evolutionary radiation, extinction, Graham Budd, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, machine learning, mass extinction events, On the Origin of Species, Paleobiology Database, paleontologists, Phanerozoic Eon, Tokyo Institute of Technology
New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Source
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02Aug 2020 by Post

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

Carboniferous Period, charcoal, conduction, convection, evaporative cooling, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, humus, industrial age, Intelligent Design, iron, Life Sciences, lignin, metallurgy, metals, nature, organic compounds, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, plant cells, pottery, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood, woody plants
Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Source
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