Carel: I'd like to see the numbers identified? Your thoughts?
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden commissioned this image to help their visitors
visualize this important stage of evolution. Highlighted are insects and
early amphibians, and a myriad of early tree species. My study for this art
took me to The American Museum of Natural History, looking at the fossil
record.
DW comment: The artist needs to explain how that record—and the resulting images--show how “geologic events and conditions have influenced the course of evolution, how geochronology confirms the timing and rates of evolutionary change, and how paleoenvironmental inference reveals the modes and consequences of evolution within those environments”. See, e.g., http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.html
[Jurists--here’s a preliminary link: From AAAS Summary: The symposium reviews how geologic events and conditions have influenced the course of evolution, how geochronology confirms the timing and rates of evolutionary change, and how paleoenvironmental inference reveals the modes and consequences of evolution within those environments.From the caption: This image helps visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden see the results of these events on organisms from the Carboniferous Period (c. 354 to 290 million years ago during the late Paleozoic Era)
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