AUTHOR'S BIO
Kevin Padian
Kevin Padian is a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology, and President of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California.
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In Darwin’s Place
Kevin Padian Series: Science and Society 2008-07-04Charles Darwin developed one of the most brilliant insights in the history of science: a mechanism that enabled the principle of evolution to unify and inform all of biology. But when he did so, he wrote that “It is like confessing a murder.”... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11566
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Jurassic Park for Sale
Kevin Padian Series: Science and Society 2001-03-09One bright day last September, Icarosaurus, the famous fossil of a Triassic Age gliding reptile, which had exited the halls of the American Museum of Natural History a decade earlier, was brought back to New York to roost. Its return was a wake-up call for public education and science everywhere. Unless action is taken, fossils will continue to be sold to the highest bidder. Sad to say, the US is not the only country with this problem. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10770
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