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Radiocarbon in the Biological Sciences

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Radiocarbon After Four Decades

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We tend nowadays to equate radiocarbon research with Libby and dating, but it had, in fact, a considerable pre-Libby prehistory in the decade 1935–1945, in the hands of chemists and physicists turning increasingly towards biological problems.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, 92521-0418, Riverside, CA, USA

    R. E. Taylor

  2. Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tuscon, AZ, USA

    Austin Long  & Renee S. Kra  & 

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Jope, M., Jope, M. (1992). Radiocarbon in the Biological Sciences. In: Taylor, R.E., Long, A., Kra, R.S. (eds) Radiocarbon After Four Decades. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4249-7_34

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