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Troubling Times at the Tar Pits: Mark Dion’s Excavations Amidst Other Historical Mischiefs

July 10, 2025

In which Alison Laurence looks to La Brea's past and present during dire times

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From the archive: What evidential role should (ancient) DNA play in paleoanthropology?

June 20, 2025

Evidence from DNA is extremely powerful: but what role should it play in reconstructing the evolutionary history of hominids? (By Helen De Cruz)

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From Stromatolites to Martian Leopard Spots: Circumstantial Traces and the Reconstruction of Early Life

June 1, 2025

In which Franziska Reinhard analyzes early life research by developing the concept of a “circumstantial trace”

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From the Archive: Rugged Individualism in the Cretaceous

January 6, 2025

Once more to the archive: in which Kelle Dhein analyzes George Simpson’s sci-fi novella, The Dechronization of Sam Magruder

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Microbe-metazoan macroevolution: new directions for an old research program

November 20, 2024

In which Joe Madison discusses new avenues of research on the role of microbes in metazoan macroevolution

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The Case of the Mislabeled Axis

October 1, 2024

In which Corey Dethier explores the meaning of scientific graphs and revisits the John Christy climate controversy

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