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Carolus Linnaes

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Father of systematics

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Cope vs Marsh

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Fierce rivals during the Golden Age of Dinosaurs

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Gideon Mantell

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Reconstructed iguana like lizard with wife

Iguanadon

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Richard Owen

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Founder of modern vertebrate paleontology, studied posture

Coined term “dinosaur”

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William Buckland

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Discovered ice age, described megalosaurus

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Wilhelm Hennig

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Phylogenetic systemically

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Ray Chapman Andrews

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Golden age

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Renaissance of dinosaurs

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Birds descended from dinosaurs
Dinosaurs energetic
After golden age of dinosaurs

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Golden age of dinosaurs

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Found a bunch of bones
March vs cope
Found long neck, T. rex, stegosaurus

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Karl Popper

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Gave definition of hypothesis

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Thomas Kahn

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Paradigm shift:

Parsimonious

Increasing number of observations that don’t match theory

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Who inspired dinosaur renaissance?

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John oshton by working on deinonychus

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