Are we or aren't we going through a mass extinction event? After painstakingly restoring several thousand accidentally deleted emails, Leonard uses the lessons learned to answer that question.
Read MoreGypsy Moths and Devonian Invasions
An outbreak of gypsy moth caterpillars raises questions about invasive species. Does the fossil record have anything to say about biological invasions?
Read MoreExtinction Matters
Does paleobiology have laws and, if so, are they relevent for molecular phylogenetics? And what is it like to be a philosophical fly on the wall at a paleontology journal club?
Read MorePaleontology after Gould
Stephen Jay Gould casts a long shadow over paleontology, and perhaps even a longer one over the philosophy of paleontology. Douglas Erwin argues that there is a lot more for philosophers to care about in paleontology than the topics Gould focused on.
Read MoreA Reading Invitation
Here in the Northern Hemisphere the weather is warming and it's almost time to get out those summer beach reads! At Extinct that means more history and philosophy of science by Martin J. S. Rudwick, of course. To each their own.
Read MorePutting Pictures to Data: The Case of the Hypothetical Ancestral Mammal
What use is an ancestor that didn't exist? Reconstructions such as the hypothetical mammalian ancestor imagined by O'Leary, et al. (2013) may play an important role in scientific hypothesizing, but that role shouldn't be overstated.
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