The past is the key to the present and the savior of the future

By The Intersection
Jan 27, 2011 10:50 PMMay 18, 2019 10:08 AM

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This is a guest post adapted from the article "Paleontology: The Biology of the Future" by Corinne Myers published in American Paleontologist Fall 2010. This post composed as part of the NSF Science: Becoming the Messenger workshop, Lawrence KS January 27, 2011

Let’s start with the present: global environmental change is a reality. This includes climate change, fragmentation and destruction of habitats, and human-caused movement of species all over the world.

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