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Created: 2nd June 2000

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Hello reader! On this page you will find the various guide entries I have written. The most important, to me, is the entry on the fascinating subject of Cladistics, a relatively new scientific method (and almost a science in itself) for determining how all life on Earth is related. Here you will discover that lungfish are more closely related to humans than to any other type of fish, and you will learn how we know this.

Other entries cover such diverse subjects as crocodiles, Iron Maiden, and the lollipop lady on a road just near where I live. The entry on crocodiles has actually been included as part of the Official Guide, which is most gratifying.

If you read any of my entries, feel free to make comments or ask questions by clicking on the 'Discuss this Entry' link.

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	Name: Arctica Last posted: Jul 18, 2001

	Researcher Number: 133478

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CONVERSATION	COMMUNITY	LATEST POST	LATEST REPLY

To the sub-editor...	h2g2	Mar 20, 2001	Aug 14, 2005
Maiden Concert	h2g2	Nov 4, 2000	Apr 2, 2004
Character sets	h2g2	Apr 11, 2001	Mar 5, 2003
Mine's easy!	h2g2	Jul 18, 2001	Jan 20, 2002
'Object-orientated evolution'	h2g2	Apr 11, 2001	No replies
Nice Entry!	h2g2	Jul 14, 2000	Jan 13, 2001
Crikey!	h2g2	Dec 19, 2000	Dec 20, 2000
A392186 - Cladistics	h2g2	Oct 12, 2000	Dec 16, 2000
Bravo	h2g2	Dec 15, 2000	No replies
A392186 - Cladistics	h2g2	Dec 12, 2000	Dec 14, 2000



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Davyhulme, lollipop ladies, etc		Dec 2, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving		Nov 25, 2005
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Maiden Concert
Nov 4, 2000

Just been to see Iron Maiden in concert at the Manchester Evening News arena. Awesome. Halford was supporting and he wasn't half bad either.

Up the Irons!

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Maiden! Maiden!
Jul 7, 2000

Having just bought the latest Iron Maiden album, Brave New World, my interest in this band has totally been revived. The new album is excellent - well above the standard of Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, No Prayer for the Dying and the detestable Fear of the Dark.

I've also just bought the albums the band did with singer Blaze Bayley. I'm beginning to love The X Factor - haven't listened to Virtual XI much yet. Until I'm thoroughly familiar with all three albums, though, my "Albums of Iron Maiden" guide entry will remain very much a work-in-progress.

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At this very moment...
Jun 20, 2000

...I'm sitting here writing this Journal Entry, wondering how on Earth I'm going to make it interesting.

I am in the middle of writing a book about the history of life on Earth, with twelve chapters, each corresponding to a geological period (starting with the Precambrian which, yes I know, is not strictly speaking a 'period'). Anyway I've got to the second last chapter (the Tertiary) and am currently researching what was going on in the Palaeocene epoch (the first of five epochs in that period). As you might expect, it largely concerns the radiation and diversification of the mammalian fauna, but it also considers the radiation of birds (particularly the giant predatory land birds like Diatryma) and the ongoing success of crocodiles.

To be honest, there is not a great deal to say about the Palaeocene, at least not in comparison with the action-packed Eocene epoch that followed it (global cooling, appearance of grasses, emergence of a great many bird orders, plus the appearance of whales, bats, elephants, horses, sirenians ... the list goes on).

I'm going to endeavour to avoid the horribly anthropocentric stance taken by most works of this kind. Therefore my last chapter, dealing with the Quaternary period, will be brutally short.

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GUIDE ENTRIES

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ID	TITLE	COMMUNITY	STATUS	CREATED

A517141	Cladistics	h2g2	Edited	Apr 10, 2001
A454880	Further Reading on Cladistics	h2g2	-	Oct 16, 2000
A406955	The Story of Crocodiles	h2g2	Edited	Aug 23, 2000
A395778	The Puma	h2g2	-	Jul 17, 2000
A392889	Lollipop Lady on Lostock Road, Davyhulme, Manchester	h2g2	-	Jul 13, 2000
A392186	Cladistics	h2g2	-	Jul 12, 2000
A384806	The Albums of Iron Maiden	h2g2	-	Jul 3, 2000
A366068	The Story of Crocodiles	h2g2	-	Jun 15, 2000

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