Antarctic Radiolaria, Magnetic Reversals, and Climatic Change

The time is now ripe for a concerted attack on the evolutionary, ecological, and molecular aspects of life at high temperatures. Hot springs provide nearly ideal ecosystems for such study, since they are natural environments of great antiquity and relative constancy, where organisms have evolved to...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Hays, James D., Opdyke, Neil D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1967
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.158.3804.1001
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.158.3804.1001
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Summary:The time is now ripe for a concerted attack on the evolutionary, ecological, and molecular aspects of life at high temperatures. Hot springs provide nearly ideal ecosystems for such study, since they are natural environments of great antiquity and relative constancy, where organisms have evolved to meet the environmental challenges of high temperatures. Even from our present limited knowledge, we can draw a number of conclusions.