In which Max explores one of the most famous zingers in the history of geology: that James Hall left mountains out of his theory of mountain building
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Terrible uniformitarian poetry
In which Max shares some terrible scientific poetry from the 1940s. Just because
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Beyond "Rocks versus Clocks": Glimpses of a New Philosophy of Molecular Clock Dating
In which Max Dresow and Katherine Valde glimpse a new philosophy of molecular clock dating
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From the Archive: Comparisons with Teeth
A deep cut: in which Max examines the durability and challenges of actualistic reasoning in paleontology
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Burgess Beasties and Ediacaran Enigmas
In which Max finally concludes two earlier posts with a double-duty post-a-ganza on the interpretation of Ediacaran macrofossils
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From the Archive: Lords of Marble and the Spear
In which Max asks what an argument for repatriating a fossil might look like in the absence of demonstrable illegality in the acquisition of that fossil
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