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table of contents
  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 - Prof. Ichthy’s Inaugural Lecture
    1. 1. Awful (and Marvellous!) Changes
      1. 1.1 Prof. Ichthy Versus Professor Ichthyosaurus
      2. 1.2 The Discovery of Loss
    2. 2. Trace-Based Reasoning
    3. 3. Roadmap and Strategy
  7. 2 - The Avalonian Ediacaran: Lost, but Not Erased
    1. 1. The First Metazoans
      1. 1.1 Avalonia
      2. 1.2 Pizza Disks
      3. 1.3 The Ecologies of Avalon
    2. 2. Loss and Erasure
    3. 3. Tracecentrism and History Redux
    4. 4. The Challenge of Loss
  8. Interlude: The Parable of the Lost City
  9. 3 - Artificing
    1. 1. A Dinosaur’s Burrow
    2. 2. Modelling Rangeomorphs
    3. 3. Strategic Perspectivalism
    4. 4. Coda: De-Extinction
  10. 4 - Grafting
    1. 1. Do Dinosaurs Feel Pain?
    2. 2. Stems and Failed Experiments
    3. 3. Dickinsonia
    4. 4. Conflicting Perspectives
    5. 5. Coda: Living Fossils
  11. 5 - Anchoring
    1. 1. Ediacaran Ecology and Its Anchors
    2. 2. Epistemic Iteration
    3. 3. Bringing It All Together: How the Metazoan World Arose
    4. 4. Coda: Scientific Laws
  12. 6 - Possible Worlds
    1. 1. How Possibly: At Least Three Ways
    2. 2. Imagination Bad—Artifactualism Good
      1. 2.1 Imagination Bad
      2. 2.2 Artifactualism Good
    3. 3. The Science of Lost Worlds Is a Science of Objective Possibility
    4. 4. Astrobiology and the Actual in Service of the Possible
  13. 7 - Imagined Worlds
    1. 1. The Poverty of Imagination
    2. 2. The Palaeoartist’s Dilemma
      1. 2.1 Shrink-Wrapping: What Went Wrong?
      2. 2.2 Diversity of Representation as an Aesthetic/Epistemic Virtue
    3. 3. Artifactualist Imagination
  14. 8 - Peculiar Worlds
    1. 1. When Does History Matter?
    2. 2. Metaphysics and Science
    3. 3. The Peculiarity of History
    4. 4. From Peculiar to Dappled
  15. 9 - Unprecedented Worlds
    1. 1. Past-Derived Knowledge and the Future
    2. 2. Strategic Perspectivalism and Unprecedented Worlds
    3. 3. Records of the Future?
  16. 10 - Loss and Wonder
    1. 1. The Lost World of Kirkdale
    2. 2. Lost Worlds and Seeing Anew
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index

List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Henry De la Beche’s Awful Changes, the Inspiration for Prof. Ichthy. Science Museum Group Collection. © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Figure 2.1 Mistaken Point (Barrett & MacKay Photography, © Mistaken Point Ambassadors Inc., BYND)

Figure 2.2 Rangeomorph Fossil (Detail from Fig. 2, Liu et al. 2015). Creative Commons CC BY

Figure 2.3 Charlotte Kenchington’s Avalonian Scene, Depicting Upright and Flat Rangeomorphs (Liu et al. 2015). Creative Commons CC BY

Figure 2.4 “Pizza Disk” Ivesheadiomorph (Fig. 1 from Liu et al. 2011). Reprinted with Permission from Paleontology

Figure 2.5 Liu et al.’s (2011) Explanation of Ivesheadiomorph Decay, from Living Forms (Upper Left) to Highly Effaced and Pizza-Disk-Like (Bottom Right) (Fig. 13, Liu et al. 2011). Reprinted with Permission from Paleontology

Figure 3.1 Burrow Model and Supply Tube (Detail from Fig. 3, Woodruff & Varricchio 2011). Reprinted with Permission from GeoscienceWorld

Figure 3.2 Rangeomorph Fossils Showing Three Levels of Branching Self-Similarity (Detail from Narbonne 2004, Fig. 2). Reprinted with Permission from the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Figure 3.3 Explanation of Fractal Model (Left) and One Example of Final Result (Right) (Details from Cuthill and Conway Morris 2014, Figs. 1 and 2). Reprinted with Permission from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Figure 3.4 Comparative Rangeomorph Space-Filling (Fig. 3, Cuthill and Conway Morris 2014). Reprinted with Permission from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Figure 4.1 Bishop et al.’s (2020) Simplified Archosaur Cladogram (Fig. 1 in Bishop et al.). Creative Commons CC BY

Figure 4.2 Informal Cladogram Depicting the Ediacaran Fauna as a Dead End or Failed Experiment

Figure 4.3 Cladogram Depicting Two Possible Stem Groups for the Ediacaran Fauna

Figure 4.4 Dickinsonia Fossil (Detail from Fig. 1, Bobrovskiy et al. 2018). Creative Commons CC BY

Figure 4.5 Measuring Dickinsonia Growth (Detail from Fig. 1, Hoekzema et al. 2017). Reprinted with Permission from Royal Society B

Figure 5.1 Phylogenetic Distribution of Some Serially Growing Lineages (Fig. 2, Gold et al. 2015). Reprinted with Permission from the Royal Society B

Figure 5.2 Approximation of Mitchell et al.’s Reasoning Process, Showing the Anchors in the Top-Right Corner

Figure 5.3 Possible Lines of Iteration between Three Perspectives; Light Arrows Feed Forward Changes, Dark Arrows Feed Backward

Figure 5.4 Modern Oceanic System (Detail from Butterfield 2018, Fig. 3). Reprinted with Permission from Geobiology

Figure 5.5 Pre-Metazoan Oceans (Detail from Butterfield 2018, Fig. 3). Reprinted with Permission from Geobiology

Figure 5.6 The Cambrian Ocean (Detail from Butterfield 2018, Fig. 3). Reprinted with Permission from Geobiology

Figure 7.1 Royal Tyrrell Museum’s Tiktaalik Sculpture (from r/NatureWasMetal)

Figure 10.1 Conybeare’s Image of Buckland in the Hyena Cave. Wikimedia Commons

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