An example of metaphor in public science discourse:
"This is at a time in the middle of the Ordovician when life was diversifying spectacularly, but we only really know that from the shelly fossils. So, it is a completely new window in terms of telling us how life went from these very simple Cambrian communities, to things that are much more like the ones we have in the modern day."
Dr Joe Botting (Amgueddfa Cymru [Museum Wales] was taking on an episode ('The beginnings of us') of BBC 'Science in Action'
[Please be aware that a word may have different nuances, or even a different meaning, according to context.]« Back to Index"…a mere 462 million years ago, life on Earth was experiencing a boom of new species but we have very few fossil records to understand this era. Now, palaeontologists Dr Joe Botting and Dr Lucy Muir have found the most abundant deposit of soft bodied fossils from this time in a tiny Welsh quarry."
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