• Question: Are you interested on discovering and learning on how was life millions of years ago?

    Asked by 07quiambaoj to Alastair, Emma, Hywel, Keith, Vicki on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Hywel Vaughan

      Hywel Vaughan answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      That’s a good question!
      Personally, I have mixed feelings about this. I think that it is incredibly useful and interesting to find out about life in the past, indeed it can help us understand a lot about evolution and how things may be in millions of years to come.
      I however find that my interests lie much more in the present and future. Don’t get me wrong, I think that life millions of years ago has a lot of relevance to now, but I find new technologies and things that can advance the human race at present much more interesting 🙂

    • Photo: Vicki Stevenson

      Vicki Stevenson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I am interested in life a long time ago – I think we can learn from mistakes that happened and try to stop them repeating.

    • Photo: Keith Brain

      Keith Brain answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I’d love to learn more, but in terms of “discovering” I’m a little busy! Too many things to discover, and so we have to specialize, while keeping our minds open the discoveries of others.

      I must say that I have a soft spot for trilobites. A few hundred million years as kings of the sea, then mass extinction with no close descendants (horseshoe crabs are the closest, I think).

    • Photo: Alastair Sloan

      Alastair Sloan answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Yes I am. Although it is not my area of research or expertise, I have always been interested in life in the prehistoric era. This has been encouraged lately by my 7 year old son who is mad about dinosaurs and has loads of books on them. It’s great fun!

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