I’m excited to share our with @niles_eldredge article published in “Paleobiology” @PaleoSoc on the third (Bretskyan) hierarchy of life, as Niles called it—the “zipper hierarchy” of eco-genealogical units.

Shown Illustration of geobiomes by Tadas Razmas
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In this contribution we’ve presenting a synthesis of several major themes in the hierarchical theory of evolution: connections between ecological (Vernadskyan) and genealogical (Linnaean) hierarchy, put in place the major transitions in evolution...
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The first article first-authored by my BSc, MSc (and quickly PhD) student @LDaumantas is out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
By combining insights from #archeology, #paleobiology, #GIS , #geostatistics and #Machine_learning we revealed the dynamics of ancient human settlement rules 1/n Extending the classical #cliodynamics approach advocated by @Peter_Turchin we tracked the dynamics of evolving spatial interactions of human settlements with geological/geomorphic factors while testing against spatial null models 2/n