Empires

For several years Jesse Ausubel and Cesare Marchetti have been pondering the growth of human empires through the lens of biological models. The International Journal of Anthropology has now published…

Animal species and mitochondria

We post to BioRXiv, the pre-print server for biology: Why Should Mitochondria Define Species? Mark Y. Stoeckle, David S. Thaler Comments on the paper are most welcome.The study is grounded…

More papers

We post some more of our older papers: Science International: A US View of its Institutional Needs, Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends, Consuming Materials: The American Way, and Cities…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

Deep carbon interest

The newsletter Oilprice.com takes an interest in the Deep Carbon Observatory and abiogenic methane in a good article,The Search for Deep Oil and Gas, by Brian Westenhaus. Deep Carbon Interest…

ABBI brochure

We post Mark Stoeckle’s beautifully illustrated brochure for the project to develop DNA barcodes for all birds, the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI). https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/ABBI-barcoding%20life%20takes%20flight%20v1.1.pdf…

Five new old papers

We post new scans of four of our older papers: A Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions, part of “Changing Climate: Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee”…