PHYLOGENETIC MYTHOGENESIS AND PALEONTOLOGY

Mythogenesis and Nanotechnology: Future Medical Directions

Journal of Futures Studies, February 2008, 12(3): 71 82 The realm of nanotechnology is in its pioneering stage, similar to what quantum science was in the 1920's and 1930's (Atkinson, 2005, p.34). Like our scientific discoveries of the atom, nuclear fission, DNA, space travel, and the human genome, science has extended human consciousness, enabling humans to ponder in new ways their relationshi...

Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Avian Paleontology and Evolution

Miocoracias chenevali, nov. gen., nov. spec., a new genus and species of roller (Aves: Coraciiformes s. s.: Coraciidae) is described from the Early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy. This family had not yet been reported from the rich fossil avifauna of this area. Although the material is fragmentary it shows morphological characteristics different from those of the extinct family Geranopteridae, ...

Paleontology: C. Stock

Journal of Paleontology

ABTRACT--Available museum collections have been utilised for a functional analysis of common members of the bivalve fauna of the Cretaceous Chalk Formation of England. It is concluded that many members of the fauna were able to inhabit their unusual environment by virtue of specialised adaptations. There is an apparent paucity of infaunal bivalves in true Chalk lithology, and the fauna is domin...