by Matthew Cobb
Over at The Guardian, their new blogger Dave Hone of the University of Bristol (and, like Jerry, a Spurs supporter) has an excellent piece on the biases in the fossil record. He lists the kind of things that skew our vision of the past - the kinds of organisms that get preserved (v tricky to get soft-bodied organisms), the places where they are preserved (rainforest and mountain top bad, floodplain or lagoon good), and access to the rocks, which can be both geological or political.
