• Joeri Witteveen on Golden Spikes

  • Mar 16 2025
  • Length: 25 mins
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Joeri Witteveen on Golden Spikes

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  • Golden spikes are not golden, nor are they generally spikes. So what are they, and, more importantly, what exactly do they represent? In the podcast, Joeri Witteveen explains how we arrived at our present system of defining the boundaries of stages in the rock record with a single marker. Paradoxically, it turns out that the best place for a golden spike is where “nothing happens.” Listen and find out why.

    Witteveen is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Copenhagen.

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