A call to the custodians of deep time

Douglas Erwin
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Douglas Erwin: National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA and at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. erwind@si.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 462, issue 7271, 282-283

Abstract: Palaeontologists must model the causes of biodiversity rather than simply cataloguing fossils, says Douglas Erwin, as they curate the only record of ecosystems undamaged by humans.

Date: 2009
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