Problematica #40: In which Max pays tribute to the late paleontologist Richard Fortey by assembling some of his favorite Fortey-an sentences
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American Primordial: remembering the Great Taconic Controversy
In which Max remembers the biggest American geological brouhaha of the nineteenth century
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Ode to Opabinia, or Why You Don't Hear as Much About Problematic Fossils as you Used to
In which Max examines the history of research on that Burgess oddball, Opabinia regalis, and asks why this problematic fossil is less problematic than it used to be
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Why the Yanks whiffed on drift... was uniformitarianism to blame?
In which Max considers the question on everyone’s mind: whether uniformitarianism was a factor in Americans’ rejection of continental drift in the 1920s
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"The great heart of nature beats"
In which Max concludes his investigation of periodic diastrophism in the twentieth century by exploring its uptake in (vertebrate) paleontology
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"Nature Vibrates with Rhythms"
In which Max continues his investigation of the popularity of periodic diastrophism in the first half of the twentieth century
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