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Out today: An author-meets-critics book symposium on Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences (2018, MIT Press) by Adrian Currie, with Alison Wylie, Leonard Finkelman, Joyce C. Havstad, and Derek Turner. At ptpbio.org
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What color was that dinosaur, actually? New paper in Nature Communication on a third method for color determination from fossils (especially for red pigment): nature.com/articles/s41467-0… See philosophical discussion @ExtinctBlog extinctblog.org/extinct/2019… sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2…
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CRASSH/@CSERCambridge author Adrian Currie @ExtinctBlog enjoys his copies of Rock, Bone & Ruin – now on Amazon! What's the book about? Read the Q&A with Adrian here crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/post/r… (Photo courtesy of @mitpress Facebook page bit.ly/2GdWSOQ.)
An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences: 5 questions to Adrian Currie about his new book, 'Rock, Bone & Ruin' @CSERCambridge @ExtinctBlog crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/post/r…
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I was interviewed by Helen De Cruz about my hobby, fossil hunting and collecting. Enjoy! philosopherscocoon.typepad.c… @HelenDeCruz
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ISMD President’s Statement on AMNH Fossils Collected by Roy Chapman Andrews – ISMD mongoliandinosaurs.org/ismd-…
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Birds are more like ‘feathered apes’ than ‘bird brains’ flip.it/pOyar5
Researchers Say They've Found A Bit Of Fossilized Dinosaur Brain : The Two-Way : NPR npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/…
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Linfield philosophy professor @Finkelsaurus discusses "What, If Anything, is a Tyrannosaurus Rex?" tomorrow night. 🤔 linfield.edu/linfield-news/f…
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#FossilFriday There's a new #Archaeopteryx specimen, it looks spectacular. This means there are now 12. #dinosaurs
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A Scientist On Philosophy, The “Thankless Job” That Succeeds Through Superfluousness dailynous.com/2016/08/19/sci…
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EXTINCT MONSTERS | Art, History, and Science of Museum Paleontology extinctmonsters.net/
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Natural selection 🐠🐟🐠🐟🐟→🎣→🐠🐟🐠🐠🐟→🎣→🐟🐠🐠🐠🐠→🎣→🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠 Genetic drift 🐠🐟🐠🐟🐟→🎲→🐠🐟🐠🐠🐟→🎲→🐟🐟🐠🐠🐟→🎲→🐟🐟🐟🐠🐟→🎲→🐟🐟🐠🐟🐠→🎲→🐠🐟🐟🐟🐟→🎲→🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 Sexual selection 🐸→💋→👸
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"definitive proof that the “Toroceratops hypothesis” is wrong" :) From SVPOW svpow.com/2016/05/06/sv-pow-… #dinosaurs
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Make your voice heard and help shape philosophy's future by taking a brief survey on "What Matters to Philosophers?" apaonline.org/news/302080/Wh…
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Stegosaurs and the Species Recognition Hypothesis blogs.scientificamerican.com… #science
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Success of 'synthetic species' game #PokemonGO a wake-up call for #conservationbiologists bioteach.ubc.ca/TeachingReso…
Making comparisons to living birds helps researchers draw conclusions about extinct dinos: bit.ly/28Z6wSp