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Apr. 13, 2012
Searching for Nature’s Time Machines in Relics
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In the new book, Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine, Harvard entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki documents his travels, from New Guinea to New Zealand and beyond, looking for organisms whose genes can tell us something about conditions on Earth millions of years ago.
See more of the amazing photos from the book in our blog coverage of Science & the Arts .
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Piotr Naskrecki
Author Relics: Travels in Nature's Times Machine (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Research Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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