Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

A complete and optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages spanning the last
1.0 million years is proposed. Lettered substages for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 were …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

Earth's geological history is divided into chronostratigraphic units that distinguish phases in
the planet's evolution by summarizing complex biotic, geochemical, and climatic changes …

One great challenge in understanding the history of life is resolving the influence of
environmental change on biodiversity. Simulated annealing and genetic algorithms were …

We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene
Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which …

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this
interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to …

To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic
analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods …

Amber is fossilized tree resin, and inclusions usually comprise terrestrial and, rarely, aquatic
organisms. Marine fossils are extremely rare in Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers. Here, we …

We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it
is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this increasingly used unit, whether the …