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Lecture: Ice age mammals (Davenport Hotel, 10 June)

  • 02-06-2009 11:32am
    #1
    robindch
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    If you're not into the Big Bang and its limitations, then you can pop over to the Davenport Hotel at 8pm, for the next ISS lecture entitled:

    Ice age mammals: tales of extinction and survival

    Which will be given by Nigel Monaghan, keeper of the Natural History Museum, Dublin.


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  • #2
    Galvasean
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    I'll be at it. Anyone else coming?


  • #3
    marco_polo
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    Damn I am in the UK, next week. Sounds really interesting :(


  • #4
    robindch
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    I'll be at it. Anyone else coming?
    Yep, should be there.

    Here's the talk abstract:
    Nigel Monaghan wrote:
    The collection of bones of ice age mammals in the National Museum of Ireland reveal a great deal about the last 40,000 years. Climate changed in cycles as did the animals that inhabited the changing landscapes. For well over a century there has been evidence of the presence of woolly mammoths, giant deer and even spotted hyenas in our ice age faunas. Radiocarbon dating has been used to put these ancient faunas in context. Recent work using new techniques has allowed these bones to be examined for DNA, showing patterns of family relationships. New studies on our modern faunas are beginning to identify native animals from those introduced by our ancestors. Even today new animals are arriving, with as yet unknown impacts on our environment.


  • #5
    ChocolateSauce
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    I'll be there, hopefully.


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