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Podcast 125 - Feeling Isolated; Biogeography and Evolution
The gang discusses two papers that investigate the impact that the geographic occupation of a species has on its evolution, both in the distant past …
8 years, 8 months ago
Podcast 124 - A Second Opinion
The gang discusses two papers that complicate our understanding of some important fossils. Specifically, we focus on abiotic "stromatolites" and cryp…
8 years, 9 months ago
Podcast 123 - Periodicity of Extinction
The gang discusses two papers with differing opinions about whether or not extinction events in the fossil record follow a periodic pattern. Also, Ja…
8 years, 9 months ago
Podcast 122 - GSA 2017; We Have a Fridge
James and Curt are joined by friends of the show Brendan and Carlie to discuss the talks presented at the Geological Society of American annual meeti…
8 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 121 - Reconstructing the Niche
The gang discusses two papers that use fossil evidence to determine the past ecology and niche-space of past organisms, specifically dodos and hyenas…
8 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 120 - Something Something Convergence
The gang discusses two papers that deal with different examples of convergence. The first discusses how brood parasite female cuckoos …
8 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 119 - Dimorphic Dinosaurs
The gang discusses two papers that look at the complex issues surrounding the identification of sexual dimorphism in archosaurs (e.g. birds, dinosaur…
8 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 118 - Dealing with Problematica
The gang discuss two papers that attempt to resolve the taxonomic placement of animals with complex or confusing morphologies. Also, they somehow go …
9 years ago
Podcast 117 - Hero Terrapins and Fighting Frogs
The gang discuss two papers that study how the geographic ranges of turtles and frogs changed through time, and how these changes affected their ecol…
9 years ago
Podcast 116 - Changing Relationships; Dinosaurs and Marsupials
The gang discuss two papers that offer new evidence which re-contextualizes our understanding of the evolutionary history of two important Mesozoic g…
9 years, 1 month ago