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A paleontologist who investigated phylogenetic nomenclature and bird origins, distinguishing ancestry-based group definitions from classifications based only on a few striking characters.[ref]
A paleontologist who investigated developmental and comparative evidence about digit identity in vertebrate limbs, including the correspondence of digits in bird wings.[ref]
A paleontologist who studied a Triassic stem-turtle, using its character combination to reconstruct early changes in the turtle body plan.[ref]
A paleontologist who coauthored the description of a Triassic stem-turtle, investigating the assembly of the turtle body plan.[ref]
A paleontologist who investigated turtle skull evolution, using stem-lineage fossils to test hypotheses about their ancestral temporal openings.[ref]
Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull by G. S. Bever and others. Author roster and research findings
A paleontologist who investigated inner ear biomechanics as evidence bearing on the origin of mammalian endothermy.[ref]
A paleontologist who used oxygen isotope ratio evidence to investigate thermal physiology in extinct therapsids, comparing them with other contemporary tetrapods.[ref]
A paleontologist who studied early mammal fossils, including Eomaia scansoria, whose preserved endoskeleton informs the early history of eutherians.[ref]
A paleontologist who studied dental microwear as evidence of diet, testing how surface wear compares with the dietary implications of gross tooth form.[ref]
A paleontologist who used carbon isotope ratio measurements in tooth enamel to reconstruct dietary resources used by Paranthropus boisei.[ref]
A paleontologist who investigated scapula development in Australopithecus afarensis, using comparative growth patterns to assess the possible role of climbing.[ref]
A paleontologist who described a quadrupedal early Sirenia, using its mixture of terrestrial and aquatic characters to reconstruct a transition in locomotion.[ref]
The earliest known fully quadrupedal sirenian by Daryl P. Domning. Author roster and research findings
A paleontologist who investigated the molecular relationships of placental mammals and parallel diversification into similar ecological forms.[ref]
A paleontologist who used insertions of repetitive DNA elements to investigate relationships among artiodactyls and cetaceans, including the close relationship of cetaceans and hippopotamuses.[ref]
A paleontologist who investigated the timing of mammal diversification using phylogenomics and calibrated evolutionary-time inference.[ref]
A paleontologist who combined morphological and molecular evidence to reconstruct the ancestor and diversification of placental mammals.[ref]
A paleontologist who investigated breakdown of Meckel's cartilage during development and its implications for evolution of the mammal middle ear.[ref]
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. 
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