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user-inactivated  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Most species that disappear today will leave no trace in the fossil record

I'm fascinated by loss of human knowledge over time -- one of the many reasons I enjoyed Anathem so much -- so I do wonder if there will ever come a time when later humans dig up our fossils and gradually piece together that we existed on every continent.





wasoxygen  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The scurvy story was fascinating.

user-inactivated  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  3179 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What a fucking appalling wikipedia article.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This fascinates me as well! I even see it in music all the time. Like, there are so many things that i dig up that I wind up finding out i'm "rediscovering" because bassists are bad record keepers.