Tag: paleontology
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On dinosaurs…and Darwin
For too long, we saw dinosaurs as prehistoric sideshow freaks. Dinosaurs used to be symbols of reptilian excess that deserved extinction. When scientists falsely believed that evolution followed the path of Progress–with our species sitting at the glorious apex and end of evolution–they saw dinosaurs as a weird, if charismatic, interlude in the story of…
Galileo's Pendulum 