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  • Adrian & Derek
    • Feb 1, 2019 Data, Text & Simulation: Alisa Bokulich’s "Using models to correct data: paleodiversity and the fossil record." Feb 1, 2019
  • Adrian Currie
    • Dec 1, 2018 Philosophical Metaphor & Philosophical Analysis Dec 1, 2018
    • Jul 1, 2018 Currie on Havstad on Currie Jul 1, 2018
    • May 1, 2018 Consensus Schmosensus: Dead Dinosaurs, Big Rocks & Simple Stories May 1, 2018
    • Dec 11, 2017 Reptilian Flamingos? Dec 11, 2017
    • Oct 30, 2017 Doing History & Philosophy of Science like Paleontology Oct 30, 2017
    • Oct 9, 2017 Musical Prehistory, Obvious Inferences & Being Human Oct 9, 2017
    • Sep 4, 2017 The secret epistemology of paleontological fieldwork. Sep 4, 2017
    • Aug 7, 2017 Try and say things that have a reasonable chance of being true... Aug 7, 2017
    • Jul 3, 2017 Why disagree? Jul 3, 2017
    • Jun 5, 2017 Extinction Matters Jun 5, 2017
    • Apr 24, 2017 Hobbits, Ghosts & Total Evidence Apr 24, 2017
    • Apr 3, 2017 Much Ado About Niches Apr 3, 2017
    • Feb 27, 2017 Paleoart As Science Feb 27, 2017
    • Jan 30, 2017 The Strange Case of the Crocodile’s Snout. Part 2: exonerating the hopeless. Jan 30, 2017
    • Dec 5, 2016 The Strange Case of the Crocodile’s Snout. Part 1: Answerless Questions Dec 5, 2016
    • Nov 14, 2016 The Swamp Zombie’s Journey: breathing new life into old data Nov 14, 2016
    • Oct 10, 2016 Of Sea-Urchins and Computer Models Oct 10, 2016
    • Sep 19, 2016 Teaching Philosophy of Science... With Science! Sep 19, 2016
    • Aug 26, 2016 Platyzilla & the Value of Fossils (a response to Turner’s “Are Dinosaurs Overrated?”) Aug 26, 2016
    • Aug 15, 2016 Triceratops Against Concepts Aug 15, 2016
    • Jul 18, 2016 Penguins & Ceratopsids, Lumpers & Splitters. Jul 18, 2016
    • Jun 13, 2016 Shakespeare and the Sauropods Jun 13, 2016
    • May 16, 2016 The Dogmatist’s Debunker & the Fossil Preparator May 16, 2016
    • Apr 4, 2016 Exquisite Corpse: conservation-paleobiology & uniqueness Apr 4, 2016
    • Mar 7, 2016 Going Complex Mar 7, 2016
    • Feb 8, 2016 Romancing the Raptor Feb 8, 2016
    • Jan 22, 2016 Losing Digits & Gaining Banana-stands: a response to Finkelman Jan 22, 2016
    • Jan 11, 2016 Wayne's Razor: in defence of speculation Jan 11, 2016
    • Jan 4, 2016 Against Simple Stories. Jan 4, 2016
  • Ben Borkovic
    • Jun 6, 2016 A Crush of Ceratopsids Jun 6, 2016
  • Extinct Blog
    • Jan 1, 2019 Extinct in 2018, Extinct in 2019! Jan 1, 2019
    • Mar 1, 2018 Glastonbury: today, tomorrow, 2,250 years ago Mar 1, 2018
    • Nov 6, 2017 The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found Nov 6, 2017
    • Sep 18, 2017 Paleontological luck Sep 18, 2017
    • May 15, 2017 Putting Pictures to Data: The Case of the Hypothetical Ancestral Mammal May 15, 2017
    • Dec 26, 2016 Extinct, One Year In! Dec 26, 2016
    • Jan 6, 2016 Welcome to Extinct! Jan 6, 2016
  • Caitlin Wylie
    • Apr 11, 2016 Overcoming underdetermination Apr 11, 2016
  • Carol Cleland
    • Mar 14, 2016 Traces of the Past: Drumlins Mar 14, 2016
  • Charles Pence
    • Dec 4, 2017 Bringing Evolution to the Masses: Disney’s Fantasia as History of Biology Dec 4, 2017
  • Daniel Nolan
    • Dec 12, 2016 Historical Sciences and "Great Man" Approaches to History Dec 12, 2016
  • David Sepkoski
    • Dec 19, 2016 Picturing Data, Narrating History Dec 19, 2016
  • Derek Turner
    • Oct 1, 2018 A Metasequoia Moment Oct 1, 2018
    • Apr 2, 2018 History and Value Apr 2, 2018
    • Dec 27, 2017 Writing about Science in 2017 Dec 27, 2017
    • Nov 13, 2017 Remeasuring Pisanosaurus Nov 13, 2017
    • Oct 16, 2017 Dinosaur at the Gas Station Oct 16, 2017
    • Sep 11, 2017 Natural Theology Still Shapes How We Think About Fossils Sep 11, 2017
    • Aug 14, 2017 Adding Mary Anning: Reflections on Confederate Nostalgia, Counterfactual History, and the History of Paleontology Aug 14, 2017
    • Jul 10, 2017 The Transformative Value of Fossils Jul 10, 2017
    • Jun 12, 2017 Gypsy Moths and Devonian Invasions Jun 12, 2017
    • May 8, 2017 From the War of Nature May 8, 2017
    • Apr 10, 2017 Some Questions About Dinosaur Hips Apr 10, 2017
    • Mar 6, 2017 The Wilderness Before Time Mar 6, 2017
    • Feb 6, 2017 Four Features of Historical Counterfactuals Feb 6, 2017
    • Jan 2, 2017 Science, Religion, and Bad Poetry Jan 2, 2017
    • Nov 21, 2016 Artificial Species Selection Nov 21, 2016
    • Oct 24, 2016 Why don't they call it "Stagnating Selection"? Oct 24, 2016
    • Sep 26, 2016 Site-Specific Teaching in New England's Dinosaur Country Sep 26, 2016
    • Aug 22, 2016 Are Dinosaurs Overrated? Aug 22, 2016
    • Jul 25, 2016 Paleoaesthetics in the Bisti Badlands Jul 25, 2016
    • Jun 20, 2016 The Macroevolutionary Puzzle of the Cycads Jun 20, 2016
    • May 23, 2016 "Leave No Trace" May 23, 2016
    • Apr 18, 2016 Extinction and Expiration Dates Apr 18, 2016
    • Mar 21, 2016 Conservation Paleobiology Mar 21, 2016
    • Feb 15, 2016 Nemesis Strikes Back: Lisa Randall's Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs Feb 15, 2016
    • Jan 18, 2016 "What If" Prehistory Jan 18, 2016
    • Jan 15, 2016 Wayne's Razor at the museum? A response to Currie Jan 15, 2016
    • Jan 4, 2016 "Plus ca Change" and the Importance of Going Extinct Jan 4, 2016
  • Don Brinkman
    • Jul 11, 2016 From Bonebeds to Paleoecology Jul 11, 2016
  • Douglas Erwin
    • May 30, 2017 Paleontology after Gould May 30, 2017
  • Leonard Finkelman
    • Aug 1, 2018 How do you pronounce "Parasaurolophus"? Aug 1, 2018
    • Feb 1, 2018 Extinction, resolved Feb 1, 2018
    • Dec 18, 2017 Systematics of Star Wars Dec 18, 2017
    • Nov 20, 2017 The Chidi-Ross Spectrum: Role Models in Philosophy and Paleontology Nov 20, 2017
    • Oct 23, 2017 Stop the Clocks (and the Other Geologic Timescale Metaphors, Too)! Oct 23, 2017
    • Aug 21, 2017 Field camp 2017 journals Aug 21, 2017
    • Jul 17, 2017 How Should Museums Organize Their Fossils? Jul 17, 2017
    • Jun 19, 2017 "Mass" Effects Jun 19, 2017
    • Apr 17, 2017 Some Questions About Dinosaur Feet Apr 17, 2017
    • Mar 13, 2017 Parsimony Revisited Mar 13, 2017
    • Feb 13, 2017 A Paleontological Record Feb 13, 2017
    • Jan 16, 2017 Indiana Jones and the Griffin's Egg Jan 16, 2017
    • Jan 9, 2017 Meditations on (First) Philosophy and (Then) Paleontology Jan 9, 2017
    • Nov 28, 2016 "Geoffrey," by "Plato" Nov 28, 2016
    • Oct 31, 2016 How Paleontology Made America Great Again Oct 31, 2016
    • Oct 3, 2016 Excavating Hidden Truths Oct 3, 2016
    • Aug 29, 2016 You Call That a Velociraptor? A Philosophical Review of "Jurassic Park" Aug 29, 2016
    • Aug 1, 2016 The Paleontological Individual Aug 1, 2016
    • Jun 27, 2016 Humps and Lumps: Thoughts from Loch Ness During My Summer Vacation Jun 27, 2016
    • May 30, 2016 What, if anything, is a Tyrannosaurus rex? May 30, 2016
    • Apr 25, 2016 The Unspecific Unicorn Apr 25, 2016
    • Mar 28, 2016 Of Endlings Mar 28, 2016
    • Feb 22, 2016 Mo' parsimony, mo' problems Feb 22, 2016
    • Jan 25, 2016 Sail Away? Jan 25, 2016
    • Jan 4, 2016 Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around the World Jan 4, 2016
  • Helen De Cruz
    • May 9, 2016 What evidential role should (ancient) DNA play in paleoanthropology? May 9, 2016
  • Helen Zhou
    • Jul 31, 2017 Counterfactual History & The Minimal Rewrite Rule Jul 31, 2017
  • Jillian Noyes
    • Feb 20, 2017 Walt Disney's Dinosaurs: The Story of The Rite of Spring Feb 20, 2017
  • John Beatty
    • Jan 23, 2017 Replaying Life's Tape - No Miracles Required Jan 23, 2017
  • Joyce Havstad
    • Nov 8, 2018 On Horses, In Solidarity Nov 8, 2018
    • Jun 1, 2018 Adrian Currie's "Rock, Bone, and Ruin" Jun 1, 2018
    • Nov 27, 2017 Leaving a Legacy: Specimen Collection in Archaeology and Biology Nov 27, 2017
    • Sep 25, 2017 You Should Read This Book Sep 25, 2017
    • Jul 24, 2017 Thoughts on "Earth's Deep History" by Martin J. S. Rudwick Jul 24, 2017
    • May 22, 2017 A Reading Invitation May 22, 2017
    • Mar 20, 2017 Anomalies Like Anomalocaris Mar 20, 2017
    • Nov 7, 2016 ISH Goes Extinct at the PSA Nov 7, 2016
    • Sep 5, 2016 Back to School Thoughts Sep 5, 2016
    • Jul 4, 2016 The Ossification of Ideas Jul 4, 2016
    • May 2, 2016 Reading (and Writing) about Rereading May 2, 2016
    • Feb 29, 2016 A Philosophical Introduction to Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction Feb 29, 2016
    • Jan 4, 2016 New to all this? Don't worry—I am too. Jan 4, 2016
  • Justin Erik Halldór Smith
    • Feb 18, 2019 Beginning at the beginning: Leibniz and the texts of deep history. Feb 18, 2019
  • Lukas Rieppel
    • Feb 1, 2016 Casting Authenticity Feb 1, 2016
  • Marco Tamborini
    • Aug 28, 2017 Beggar's Game and Game of Chance: Marketing Tendaguru Dinosaurs Aug 28, 2017
  • Matt Haber
    • Sep 12, 2016 Transformation, Persistence, and Identity Sep 12, 2016
  • Michael Skrepnick
    • Mar 11, 2016 Paleoart and Authenticity - A response to Rieppel Mar 11, 2016
  • Patrick Forber
    • Oct 17, 2016 Looking back and moving forward Oct 17, 2016
  • Ross Barham
    • Jul 16, 2018 What's It Like to Be a Dinosaur? Jul 16, 2018
    • Mar 27, 2017 What's Lost When a Species Goes Extinct? Mar 27, 2017
  • Russell Powell
    • May 1, 2017 From Humanoids to Heptapods: The Evolution of Extraterrestrials in Science Fiction May 1, 2017
  • Scott Lidgard
    • Sep 1, 2018 Rethinking Living Fossils Sep 1, 2018
  • Thomas Bonnin
    • Jun 26, 2017 “Started from the bottom” - The unexpected rise of Lokiarchaeota from the depth of the oceans to evolutionary significance. Jun 26, 2017
  • Trevor Pearce
    • Oct 2, 2017 Consciousness and Paleobiological Laws: E. D. Cope as Philosopher Oct 2, 2017
    • Aug 8, 2016 Is Internal/External Eternal? Aug 8, 2016

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