Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDave Hone: belief
4 Sept 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
“You’ve got something you can work with. And that’s why Protoceratops is so important, and I think way more important than even a lot of my fellow paleontologists realize, and I genuinely think we should be pouring a lot more research into them, because they can tell us stuff that pretty much no other dinosaur can.”
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- Dave Hone
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- 4 Sept 2025
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…That’s okay. So now if you want to look at, as I do, something like sexual selection and when does growth of the signal kick in and at what size and what evidence for dimorphism, well, suddenly you’ve got a population. You’ve got something you can work with. And that’s why Protoceratops is so important, and I think way more important than even a lot of my fellow paleontologists realize, and I genuinely think we should be pouring a lot more research into them, because they can tell us stuff that pretty much no other dinosaur can. Because you have the population data, so you can… …You can ask them a lot more questions.…
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