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Glacial striations, southern Central Park
New York City has some cool geology: Paleozoic metamorphics scraped by Pleistocene glaciers.
The Ghosts of Evolution, by Connie Barlow
Over Snowmageddon, I read Connie Barlow’s book The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms. [Google Books; Amazon] Barlow isn’t a scientist, but she’s got a scientist in her pocket: Paul Martin of the University of Arizona. In 1982, Martin and Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania published a paper in Science in which they postulated that a lot of the features of some modern …