Race to find world's oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in United Kingdom

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Race to find world's oldest mammal

fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s

PhysOrgCom, October 10, 2023

 

The open access paper is:

 

Benton, M.J., Gill, P.G. and Whiteside, D.I., 2023.

Finding the world’s oldest mammals: sieving,

dialectical materialism, and squabbles. Zoological

Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlad089.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.