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R you ready for this? Statistics for free!

Posted on 7 May, 2011 by Patrick

If you’ve listened to the show for a while or if you’ve been reading the paleocave blog from the beginning (like when we actually used to update it regularly), then you might know that I’m rather fascinated with statistics. Imagine … Continue reading →

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Diagraming Evolution, or How to read a Cladogram

Posted on 8 December, 2010 by Patrick

Remember the Linnaean system of classification you probably learned in grade school or high school (heck, maybe even college)? It went something like this… Kingdom -> Phylum -> Class -> Order -> Family -> Genus-> Species Linnaeus started using this classification … Continue reading →

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Triceratops is Safe and Sound

Posted on 12 August, 2010 by Patrick

Numerous popular press outlets reported last week that Triceratops was going the way of the dinosaur (haha) and that Triceratops was no longer a valid genus name because it was potentially just an example of a juvenile stage of a … Continue reading →

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10 Animals You Probably Didn’t Know About

Posted on 5 August, 2010 by Patrick

Well if you are the kind of person that goes around reading articles with titles like “10 Animals You Probably Didn’t Know About” then maybe you already know about these, but most people don’t. 1. Pangolins You may have actually … Continue reading →

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