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Episode 2 - Othneil Marsh vs. Edward Cope: Paleontology's "Bone Wars" - Part One
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Episode 2 - Othneil Marsh vs. Edward Cope: Paleontology's "Bone Wars" - Part One

This week on Beef, pioneering 19th century paleontologists Othneil Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope help build a discipline of science with their bitter backbiting in part one of the "Great Bone Wars."

BEEF with Bridget Todd

March 6, 202438m 21sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week on Beef, pioneering 19th century paleontologists Othneil Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope help build a discipline of science with their bitter backbiting in part one of the "Great Bone Wars."


Pick up a copy of David Bainbridge's "Paleontology: An Illustrated History."


Check out Robert Peck's co-authored history of the Academy of Natural Sciences, "A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science."


Hosted by Bridget Todd

Written by Nicole Walkow-Benedi

Showrunning, Editing & Sound Design by Pete Musto

Produced by James "Sam" Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo

Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle


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