Re: Web-available manuscript

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As an editor of the Valentine book to which Richard Cowen was invited to
contribute his paper, I can attest that all manuscripts were sent for peer
review before acceptance.  The papers were then sent back to the authors
for revision.  The entire assembled volume was sent to reviewers by the
publisher, The University of Chicago Press.  Then there will be another
opportunity for revision and corrections based on these reviews.  The book
is scheduled for publication this fall.

I am not sure I am comfortable with Richard making his work available in
advance of the whole book.  However, he has been careful in setting up the
rules of use, so maybe it is okay.  My concern is that the book has a bunch
of related papers that maybe should be seen together.   But it will take
until next fall to get the book manufactured, so it may be a service to the
profession to get the ideas out so that replies or extensions of the
concepts can be crafted sooner rather than later.  Since time does matter
in the development of scientific thought, I'd go along with Richard's
choice--hesitantly.

Jere

Jere H. Lipps,  Director
Museum of Paleontology
University of California
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