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The central elliptical galaxy in fossil groups and formation of BCGs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We study the dominant central giant elliptical galaxies in ``Fossil groups'' using deep optical (R-band) and near infrared (Ks-band) photometry. These galaxies are as luminous as the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), raising immediate interest in their ...
Jones, Laurence R.   +2 more
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Fossil cells [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2020
Philip Donoghue introduces the fossil record of cells.
openaire   +2 more sources

Rates and Rocks: Strengths and Weaknesses of Molecular Dating Methods

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2020
I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered first.
Stéphane Guindon
doaj   +1 more source

A Revised Phylogenetic Classification for Viola (Violaceae)

open access: yesPlants, 2022
The genus Viola (Violaceae) is among the 40–50 largest genera among angiosperms, yet its taxonomy has not been revised for nearly a century. In the most recent revision, by Wilhelm Becker in 1925, the then-known 400 species were distributed among 14 ...
Thomas Marcussen   +5 more
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Historical biogeography of Melastomataceae [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae are pantropically distributed sister groups for which an ndhF gene phylogeny for 91 species in 59 genera is here linked with Eurasian and North American fossils in a molecular clock approach to biogeographical ...
Clausing, G.   +2 more
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Fossils upon Fossils [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1967
Vertebrate Paleontology By Alfred Sherwood Romer. Third edition. Pp. viii + 468. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966.) $10; 72s.
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A new fossil Lucanidae subfamily (Coleoptera) from the Mesozoic of China [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2015
Litholamprima longimana Nikolajev et Ren, gen. et sp. n. of the family Lucanidae is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation. Fossils were collected from Chaomidian Village, Liaoning Province, China.
G.V. Nikolajev, D. Ren
doaj   +1 more source

Early Cambrian (Marianian) trilobites and associated faunas from the Sierra Norte de Sevilla Geopark: A scientific and heritage approach. [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
Some exceptional paleontological trilobite sites located in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla UNESCO Global Geopark are presented herein, together with an analysis of their geotourism / geotrail potential and a proposal for geoconservation.
Eduardo Mayoral Alfaro   +7 more
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Lamarck et Cuvier en révolution

open access: yesArts et Savoirs, 2020
In the context of the French Revolution, Lamarck fights Cuvier about the existence, upon the Earth of the past, of sudden catastrophes, which could be responsible of the extinction of the fossil species and prevent their transformations into the actual ...
Cédric Grimoult
doaj   +1 more source

A religious past to science: How Biblical stories have contributed to the construction of scientific knowledge

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
Stories captivate us by speaking to our imagination and by giving order and meaning to our world. Stories not only give us knowledge about society, but they can also shape our understanding of nature.
Daniel Gamito-Marques
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