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Essays on palaeobiological topics

These essays have been published in various books and journals from time to time, but they may not be readily available. You may read them, and print them off. If you wish to cite them, full details are given at the start of each article.

Dinosaurs

Scientific Methodologies in Collision. The History of the Study of the Extinction of the Dinosaurs (1990)
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
A brief history of dinosaur paleobiology (2000)
The science of 'Walking with dinosaurs'(2001)
The first supertree of dinosaurs (2002)

Analytical palaeobiology

The quality of the fossil record of vertebrates (1998)
Large databases in palaeontology (1999)

Events

Wipeout! [the end-Permian event] New Scientist, April, 2003.

Debates

Stems, nodes, crown clades, and rank-free lists: is Linnaeus dead?, Biological Reviews, November, 2000; a rebuttal of the Phylocode.

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