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In praise of the big picture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Sean Nee
Sean Nee*
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom. E-mail: sean.nee@ed.ac.uk
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When ambitious large-scale projects are proposed, like the Paleobiology Database (Alroy et al. 2001) and Panama Paleontology Projects (Jackson and Johnson 2001), there is inevitably a negative reaction from various quarters, which is quickly forgotten when the projects start to yield results. Given that, it may be useful to sing the praises of “big picture” science more generally and I will do so after briefly addressing this discussion starter in the context of my own research.

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Matters of the Records
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Paleobiology , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , Winter 2003 , pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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