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Bias in the Fossil Record

Telling the story of the often ignored and forgotten contributions of women and minorities to geology and paleontology

Tag: Chinese History

Written by jschuethbfrMarch 22, 2021March 22, 2021

Was Shen Kuo Really a Scientist? (Shen Kuo part 2)

Shen Kuo wrote about UFOs and the metaphysical in the same text in which he detailed amazing scientific work. Shen’s work “Dream Pool Essays” is more akin to a series of Reddit posts than a scientific journal, but does that make him less of a scientist? Or is our view of science a culturally-biased concept?

Written by jschuethbfrMarch 8, 2021March 20, 2021

Stone Swallows and Bamboo Shoots: The Paleontology of Shen Kuo (Part 1)

Shen Kuo was a talented 11th Century Chinese paleontologist. He wrote at length about sedimentation, geomorphology, marine fossils in mountain peaks and how the distribution of fossil bamboo meant climate had changed through time. He was a foundational paleontologist, and we should know more about him.

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