Tbh phylogenetics is the well actually of scientific disciplines

Labour in 2025: We're the responsible and sensible people who want to maintain British excellence and ensure we remain a top global player. That's why we're choosing to shoot our most globally influential and competitive sector in the head (they deserve it anyway cause of woke).

Also, having gone to find the other paper Sprigg sent in 1947, this one to the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, this one is quite a bit longer than the letter to Nature. But still shows the same photos of jellyfish.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/128949#...

Is the fact all the citations for the Nature paper are from the 2000s onward weird or is that just a Google Scholar issue?

The UK govt wants to drive growth, just seemingly not in industries the UK actually do well in internationally (universities), but stuff they've been falling behind in for decades (steel).

Interesting to see the suspicion that ecologists tend to prefer human-caused extinction while archaeologists and palaeontologists tend to be less precise with the exact kill mechanism supported by the data.

If you want to add more irony to this situation, I've been to museums in Indonesia which still subscribe to the outdated Out-of-Yunnan hypothesis of Austronesian origins.

You could probably base it on the Soviet economy, which had multiple currencies for accounting reasons for partly these issues.

You've basically restated the quasi-unsolvable question at the heart of human evolution: 'Why did humans evolve?'.

I'd reckon bipedalism seems to have been a necessary pre-requisite, with the other apes and monkeys not evolving it/evolving out of it cause it wasn't needed for their locomotion.

Yes, otherwise you will be confused and do poorly on the final exam for the Scorigami course.

My favourite book of his is 'Bursting the Limits of Margins'

Every time I get a Meal Deal in the UK, I'm reminded by how much more flavourful and filling Singapore food courts are by comparison. And they'd be cheaper 😔

iirc
3 geological periods named after Wales (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian)
2 named after England (Devonian, Carboniferous)
1 Russian (Permian)
1 German (Triassic)
2 French (Jurassic, Cretaceous)
1 Australian (Ediacaran)
2 funky American ones (Mississippian, Pennsylvanian)