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Photo credit: MCDinosaurhunter, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job? Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Ashaninkacebus</I> molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›
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Photo: White Sands National Park, by uncredited NPS employee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature

Evolutionary anthropologists will have to drastically revise the timeline of the first human arrivals in North America. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guy Kawasaki [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry

The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory. Read More ›

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