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Back to SearchEpisode 20 - The Scientific Method
Season 1 Episode 22
This episode, we’re taking a big step back at the concept that underlies everything we talk about on this podcast: the scientific method! Our discuss…
8 years, 7 months ago
Diversity in Paleontology - Special Episode
Episode 21
To coincide with Episode 19 of Common Descent, this is a compilation of voices, more than a dozen paleontologists sharing their varied perspectives o…
8 years, 7 months ago
Episode 19 - Women in Paleontology
Season 1 Episode 20
This is a listener-requested topic and a guest episode! We are joined by super-special guest Michelle Barboza-Ramirez of the Femmes of STEM podcast, …
8 years, 7 months ago
Episode 18B - Human Evolution Part 2
Season 1 Episode 19
In the second part of our exploration of our own evolutionary past, we focus in on one particular recent group of big-brained, bipedal hominins. We e…
8 years, 8 months ago
Episode 18A - Human Evolution Part 1
Season 1 Episode 18
This time, by request, we discuss an ancient story so detailed, compelling, and important that we had to split it in two! In part one, we find our ow…
8 years, 8 months ago
Episode 17 - The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, David tells tales of his trip to Calgary for this year’s SVP meeting: research presentations; meeting new people; paleo-field trips …
8 years, 8 months ago
Episode 16 - Cephalopods
Season 1 Episode 16
This episode, by request, we’re talking about one of our favorite groups of invertebrates! Specifically, invertebrates with big brains and squiggly a…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 15 - The End-Triassic Extinction
Season 1 Episode 15
This episode, we’re talking mass extinction again! Last time, we touched on the event that ended the Age of Dinosaurs, but this time – by listener re…
8 years, 9 months ago
Episode 14 - The Gray Fossil Site
Season 1 Episode 14
This episode, we finally take the time to talk in detail about the dig site we mention more than any other, the site where we both spent many years: …
8 years, 10 months ago
...But We Digress - The History of Earth
Season 1 Episode 13
And now for something completely different!
Just how deep is Deep Time? Exactly how are important events arranged throughout our planet’s history? Wh…
8 years, 10 months ago