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December 2000 |
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december features indes
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EVOLUTION DEBATE
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Science Policy to Your
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Geophenomena
Seawalls and Sandbags
The longterm nature of the
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A fossil montage illustrating
life's evolution over the last 600 million years. Each horizontal section
represents an eon or era from the Proterozoic to the Cenozoic and is sized
according to its time interval. Montage by John Pojeta Jr., scientist emeritus
at the U.S. Geological Survey and research associate at the Smithsonian
Institution National Museum of Natural History. This montage was also printed
in the USGS publication Fossils, Rocks and Time.
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