Redefining the Quaternary
September 22, 2009
…from ScientificBlogging…
“Committees and organizations usually start for the right reasons but over time they need to become self-perpetuating.
“The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has managed to milk entire decades out of deciding the boundary dates for the Quaternary Age, which covers both the ice age and moment early man first started to use tools, and it seems they have finally voted on an answer.
“Voting in science? Indeed, they have formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, reports the Journal of Quaternary Science.”
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