To Adapt Throughout Deep Time, Stay Diversified
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 20:40
in Earth & Climate
Climate change is in its fifth decade of being the big concern. In the 1960s and 70s, it was a cooling worry but now there is a warming one. A constant in mammal's surviving numerous climate upheavals throughout earth history has been diversity - the relative range and distribution of mammalian families remained strikingly consistent throughout major climate changes over the past 56 million years. read more
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