Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

[書籍][B] The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity

T Ord - 2020 - books.google.com
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the
central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species …

[書籍][B] Radical uncertainty: Decision-making beyond the numbers

J Kay, M King - 2020 - books.google.com
Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential
book, now with a preface on COVID-19. Invented numbers offer a false sense of security; we …

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

ED Jarvis, S Mirarab, AJ Aberer, B Li, P Houde, C Li… - Science, 2014 - science.org
To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic
analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods …

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it
is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this increasingly used unit, whether the …

Genetic contribution of paleopolyploidy to adaptive evolution in angiosperms

S Wu, B Han, Y Jiao - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs or polyploidy) are prevalent in plants, and some
WGDs occurred during the timing of severe global environmental changes. It has been …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

Circling the drain: The extinction crisis and the future of humanity

R Dirzo, G Ceballos, PR Ehrlich - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humanity has triggered the sixth mass extinction episode since the beginning of the
Phanerozoic. The complexity of this extinction crisis is centred on the intersection of two …