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“None of what follows will make sense absent a single social fact: The field of paleontology is mean.”
In which a scientific feud gets surprisingly personal:
When During looks at a bone, she sees a chemical matrix waiting to be investigated. She sees an opportunity to extract information. When DePalma looks at a bone, he sees a narrative. He tells stories about the bones, some of them true.
The Bitter Feud at the Heart of the Paleontology World
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