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The Swamp Zombie’s Journey: breathing new life into old data

November 14, 2016

Data & Evidence have a history too!

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ISH Goes Extinct at the PSA

November 7, 2016

What happens when philosophers get together?  They argue with one another, that's what.

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In Joyce Havstad, Thoughts

How Paleontology Made America Great Again

October 31, 2016

Paleontologists once had a direct influence on a political platform. Could they do the same in the future?

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Why don't they call it "Stagnating Selection"?

October 24, 2016

How thick concepts make it impossible to keep the values out of science

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Tags stasis, stabilizing selection, punctuated equilibria, Stephen Jay Gould, thick concepts, science and values

Looking back and moving forward

October 17, 2016

How can the paleoecology of extinction help us understand modern extinctions and climate change? Patrick Forber has some answers...

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Of Sea-Urchins and Computer Models

October 10, 2016

Adrian discusses how paleontologists sometimes use computer models to test hypotheses about the features of animals which lived in the distant past...

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