“The Devonian research community is a little anemic, frankly,” said Thomas Algeo. “It’s hard to get enough people together for meetings. We tried to do a special issue on the Devonian and didn’t get enough papers to make it fly. There aren’t enough people actively working on it.” Depressingly, while research on the pivotal Devonian period languishes, only a few miles from Algeo’s office is the Creation Museum, a bizarre evangelical funhouse where glassy-eyed schoolchildren are told that the Earth isn’t much older than the pyramids and shown dioramas of tyrannosaurs boarding Noah’s Ark. Awash
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