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The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart this decade (2025)
Journal Article
Cohen, K., Harper, D., Gibbard, P., & Car, N. (2025). The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart this decade. Episodes, 48(1), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2025/025001

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has been producing and updating its International Chronostratigraphic Chart for several decades. The chart communicates higher-order divisions of geological time and actual knowledge on the numerical... Read More about The ICS international chronostratigraphic chart this decade.

Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences (2025)
Journal Article
Lengieza, M. L., Richardson, M., & Hughes, J. P. (2025). Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences. Landscape and Urban Planning, 259, Article 105362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105362

Landscape planning and design holds the potential to contribute to efforts toward repairing our growing psychological disconnection with nature. To do so, however, it is important to know what types of environmental features impact how connected to n... Read More about Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences.

Ordovician (Darriwilian–Katian) Brachiopods From The Southeastern Margin Of Avalonia (Condroz Inlier, Belgium) (2025)
Journal Article
Candela, Y., Harper, D. A. T., & Mottequin, B. (2025). Ordovician (Darriwilian–Katian) Brachiopods From The Southeastern Margin Of Avalonia (Condroz Inlier, Belgium). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 131(1), 213-239. https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/26428

New Ordovician bivalves from the Indochina Palaeoplate in Dali, western Yunnan, Southwest China and their palaeogeographic significance (2024)
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Wang, Y., Fang, Z. J., Harper, D. A. T., Zhang, Y. C., Wei, X., Wang, G. X., & Zhan, R. B. (2025). New Ordovician bivalves from the Indochina Palaeoplate in Dali, western Yunnan, Southwest China and their palaeogeographic significance. Palaeoworld, 34(3), Article 100883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2024.09.007

A centre of radiation for Ordovician bivalves is identified based on an abundant and diverse fauna from the Hsiangyang Formation (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician) of Dali, western Yunnan, Southwest China. It consists of 22 species of 18 genera includi... Read More about New Ordovician bivalves from the Indochina Palaeoplate in Dali, western Yunnan, Southwest China and their palaeogeographic significance.

Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence (2025)
Journal Article
Barton, R. A., & Barrett, L. (in press). Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,