Ian McHarg undoubtedly will be remembered as one of the most influential landscape
architects of the 20th century. His charismatic personality, grand narrative Design with …

Paleobiology is not only a science of the deep past: it is a science of deep possibility.
Drawing on recent speculative reconstructions of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, I sketch a new …

The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an epistemic dimension.
Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims, such as cultivating sense of place and …

In earlier work, I predicted that we would probably not be able to determine the colors of the
dinosaurs. I lost this epistemic bet against science in dramatic fashion when scientists …

Biologists often study living systems in light of their having evolved, of their being the
products of various processes of heredity, adaptation, ancestry, and so on. In their …

Prince Rupert Harbour is a flagship region in Northwest Coast prehistory with resonance
across the archaeological world as an epitome of the development of hunter-gatherer-fisher …

202 Chapter Ten without actually performing any experimental manipulations on the objects
of interest. In what follows, I describe two techniques that paleobiologists have come to rely …

In this chapter, it is proposed that science teachers can foster students' construction of model-
based scientific explanations and argumentations through the intentional use of abductive …

Contrariando la concepción etiológica de las funciones biológicas, se pretende mostrar que
las explicaciones por selección natural, lejos de justificar atribuciones funcionales, las …

We identify a species of experiment—Kon-Tiki experiments—used to demonstrate the
competence of a cause to produce a certain effect, and we examine their role in the …