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		<title>Origins of Darwin&#8217;s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/17/darwin-evolution-origins-book-review-archibald/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Origins of Darwin&#8217;s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place by J. David Archibald does something that not enough studies of Darwin&#8217;s work do: Get off the island. Years ago, I realize that most of Darwin&#8217;s arguments, in On the Origin of Species, are underlain by evidence Darwin would have observed prior to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/03/17/darwin-evolution-origins-book-review-archibald/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Origins of Darwin&#8217;s Evolution: Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Triassic Life on Land:  I love this book</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/28/triassic-life-on-land-i-love-t/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Triassic is old. This book is new. That is a hard to beat combination. Let&#8217;s see &#8230; The Triassic is about here: (You can also look it up in this PDF file supplied by the USGS. It is situated between two major extinction events, and is especially interesting because it is during this period &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/28/triassic-life-on-land-i-love-t/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Triassic Life on Land:  I love this book</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How geology affects your dog&#8217;s demeanor and the view from your back yard</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/05/how-geology-affects-your-dogs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does your back yard slope up, away from your house, or does it slope down? The likelihood that your yard slopes one way or the other &#8230; statistically &#8230; depends in large part on what region you live in. (Here I&#8217;ll be speaking mainly of the US, but the principle applies broadly.) If you live &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/05/how-geology-affects-your-dogs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How geology affects your dog&#8217;s demeanor and the view from your back yard</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pink Iguanas and Disappearing Islands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It turns out that a recently discovered population of land iguanas on the Galapagos is probably a new species that represents the basal (original) form of Galapagos land iguana. Moreover, this iguana is found in an unexpected place, according to a paper just coming out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/06/pink-iguanas-and-disappearing/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pink Iguanas and Disappearing Islands</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why the Hobbits of Flores Were Probably Not Broken People</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/why-the-hobbits-of-flores-were/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a new paper out suggesting that the Flores hominids, known as Hobbits, were &#8220;human endemic cretins.&#8221;From the abstract of this paper: &#8230; We hypothesize that these individuals are myxoedematous endemic (ME) cretins, part of an inland population of (mostly unaffected) Homo sapiens. ME cretins are born without a functioning thyroid; their congenital hypothyroidism &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/why-the-hobbits-of-flores-were/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why the Hobbits of Flores Were Probably Not Broken People</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Very Large Parks are the Wave of the Future</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/28/very-large-parks-are-the-wave/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Across Africa, and to some extent Asia, existing large parks and preserves are being combined into very large parks in order to serve several important functions. One is to make the parks so large that there will be interior areas that are impractical for most poaching or other encroachment. Another is to allow movement of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/28/very-large-parks-are-the-wave/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Very Large Parks are the Wave of the Future</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Darwin and the Voyage: 11 ~  Elephants and Horses</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/22/darwin-and-the-voyage-11-eleph/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1833, Darwin spent a fair amount of time on the East Coast of South America, including in the Pampas, where he had access to abundant fossil material. Here I&#8217;d like to examine his writings about some of the megafauna, including Toxodon, Mastodon, and horses, and his further considerations of biogeography and evolution.In the vicinity &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/22/darwin-and-the-voyage-11-eleph/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin and the Voyage: 11 ~  Elephants and Horses</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Darwin and the Voyage: 10 ~ Rheas and the Birth of Evolutionary Theory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows about Darwin&#8217;s Finches, of the Galapagos Islands. But of course, Darwin made observations of birds throughout his travels on The Beagle. Here, I present a number of passages from The Voyage that include some of these observations.Struthio Rhea I will now give an account of &#8230; the Struthio Rhea, or South American ostrich. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/20/darwin-and-the-voyage-10-rheas/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin and the Voyage: 10 ~ Rheas and the Birth of Evolutionary Theory</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Potato and Human Evolution</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/19/the-potato-and-human-evolution/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fallback foods are the foods that an organism eats when it can&#8217;t find the good stuff. It has been suggested that adaptive changes in fallback food strategies can leave a more distinct mark on the morphology of an organism, including in the fossil record, than changes in preferred food strategies. This assertion is based on &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/19/the-potato-and-human-evolution/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Potato and Human Evolution</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Darwin and the Voyage: 09 ~ Fossil Quadrupeds</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/18/darwin-and-the-voyage-09-fossi/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Darwin wrote a book called Geological Observations on South America. Since Fitzroy needed to carry out intensive and extensive coastal mapping in South America, and Darwin was, at heart, a geologist more than anything else (at least during the Beagle&#8217;s voyage), this meant that Darwin would become the world&#8217;s expert on South American geology. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/18/darwin-and-the-voyage-09-fossi/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Darwin and the Voyage: 09 ~ Fossil Quadrupeds</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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