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BOOKSHELF

SICKENING SLAVERY: In his new book, "Epidemics and Enslavement," Paul Kelton, associate professor of history, examines the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of old world diseases in the United States. Kelton concludes that natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts and attributes the first region-wide epidemic of smallpox to the Indian slave trade.

RESEARCH MATTERS

Plants from Antarctica have revealed the icy continent was once a warm place to be. Edith Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior curator of paleobotany, has studied fossilized plants that thrived there from 240 million to 260 million years ago. As the global climate warms, Taylor said, plants from South America could migrate further south, once again inhabiting Antarctica. For more information and to listen, visit www.researchmatters.ku.edu.