Over the past two days I've been arguing that multiple avenues of insight are critical in historical scholarship. That's a general assertion; check out this bloggingheads.tv exchange between Carl Zimmer and paleontologist Niel Shubin. Carl points out that though Neil is a paleontologist focused on Deep Time, his laboratory is a conventional wet environment where a fair amount of developmental genetic research occurs. Uniformitarianism strikes again! The present is a window onto the past....
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A few months ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a professional paleontologist and pick his brain about a few things. One of the questions that I most wanted to ask was about the changing nature of paleobiology.
If you enjoyed this week's interview with paleontologist Robert Bakker, then you'll definitely want to stop by the new blog of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Beyond Bon
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