By Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator
Science is an inherently collaborative endeavor. When a respected colleague courteously disagrees with your point of view, it can lead to great new papers, perspectives and collaborations.
In that same vein, feedback from editors and reviewers of academic journals is an often-understated driver of new research directions. Assistant Professor of Earth and environmental sciences Simon Darroch, found this to be the case for his new paper examining the differences between geographic ranges of species historic and living.
In a precursor to the current paper, "Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales", an editor was hesitant that historic ranges and modern ranges could be defined as equivalent, since historic ranges are created using "time-averaged" records.
