Rachel Sussman · Nautilus · 2015
What a 9,000-Year-Old Spruce Tree Taught Me
But what I didn’t expect to learn was that sometimes the right person for a scientific endeavor is an artist.
Why we picked it
Sussman’s search for organisms at least two millennia old demonstrates how art can translate deep time across the boundaries of scientific specialization.
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