Anticipation, Discovery and Serendipity in Quaternary Paleoecology

Personal Experiences from the Iberian Pyrenees

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ID15801670
AuthorsValentí Rull (0000-0002-9961-105X, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume6
Issue3
Pages42-42
Publication date2023-07-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQuaternary (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2571-550X • E-ISSN: 2571-550X
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/quat6030042
OpenAlexW4384828348
LanguageEN
References cited22

This essay is a personal insight based on my own experience in the Iberian Pyrenees, which addresses three situations common in paleoecological research, such as the verification of previously devised hypotheses (anticipation), the finding on unknown events in unstudied sites (discovery) and the finding of unexpected outputs in already known areas (serendipity). The account is concentrated on the value of the coring sites by themselves as generators of paleoecological knowledge, rather than on the actual findings, which are presented and discussed in the corresponding data papers. The main aim is to show that there is still much room for new findings, even in areas that have been surveyed for a long time and are supposed to be well known, from a paleoecological perspective. Finally, some general lessons are derived and conceptualized

Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Cognitive psychology · Coring · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · Paleoecology · Perspective (graphical · Serendipity · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Geology · Paleontology

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