Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
When mammalian tooth heights predict a savanna, but plant fossils don’t
The reconstruction of ancient environments depends on proxies from earth and climate science combined with animal and plant fossils. No single proxy will tell the whole story. Or so you’d think.
Mendel meets Tilman – a most daring genetic mapping project
In our recent paper, my co-author Pascal Niklaus and I describe a journey to the genetic roots of poorly understood ecological phenomena.
