Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
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The Paleontologist and the Dinosaur
I'm not sure which one I'm going to choose but so, you know, the blazing the trail to the distant past. When I see a master that I haven't seen before it is transforming my mood for the day. More data is better more data strengthens your conclusion if even if your conclusion is not strong. One truth is that variability begets creativity. And as an ecologist and evolutionary biologist creation depends fundamentally on variability.
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