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| | | | | Michael Taylor is a PeerJ user. Bio: I am a computer programmer by vocation, but started to study palaeontology in my spare time in 2000. I got my Ph.D from the University of Portsmouth in 2009, and I'm now an honorary research associate at the University of Bristol. I work on the palaeobiology of sauropods -- the biggest and best of the dinosaurs -- with occasional forays into taxonomy and phylogenetic nomenclature. I am an advocate of open access, and more generally of transforming our archaic academic... | |
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| | | | | In 1962, Richard Frank Kingham - a student at Woodward School Washington, D.C. - wrote a four-page paper, with three further pages of line drawings, about the Early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon (Kingham 1962). It was published in the Proceedings of the Washington Junior Academy of Sciences (which to no-one's great surprise does not seem to... | |
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| | | | | 5. Brian Kraatz, 2004 In the spring of 2004, I was killing time over in Tony Barnosky's lab at Berekeley, talking to Brian Kraatz about something-mammals, probably. Brian told me that I should consider going to the International Congress of Zoology that was happening in Beijing that fall. He'd actually told me about it several... | |
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| | | "Welcome to Jurassic Park." Are we being welcomed to the island? To the park? To the book that we're already over 90 pages in to? It's all of it. Crichton has arguably taken an obvious book idea - dinosaurs alive today - and introduced it in a way to make it immensely readable, immensely stick... | ||