This is an interesting article from Jere. But Jere forgot another good way to build a rep in paleontology:
Borrow interesting specimens from naive amateurs - collectors - with the promise to identify or describe the species. Then "misplace" the specimens. It is better that these specimens languish on your dusty shelf, safe from someone else describing them before you get around to it! After a few years, the collector will give up trying to recover them.
-----------Harry Pristis
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In a message dated 9/3/02 6:26:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, paleovision.com@sympatico.ca writes:
An interesting article from Jere! http://palaeo-electronica.org/2002_1/editor/focus.htm humans are so clever, maybe this is why we are a superior species! Mario Cournoyer