Quest Podcast #2: Species are everywhere, but they don’t exist

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Species are everywhere, but they don’t exist: Wherein we discuss different methods of defining species, the purpose of separating living things into categories, why it seems like species exist, and why, ultimately, they may not. If species don’t exactly exist, is the concept still meaningful? Yes. Find out why on the Quest podcast.

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Danaan DeNeve – Evolutionary ecologist, PhD candidate at UC Merced

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Nate Fox – Paleontologist, PhD candidate at UC Merced

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Taran Rallings – Paleo food web modeler, PhD student at UC Merced

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We will update this blog post with some exciting accessory information very soon

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Next up: Models and Data Collection: the methods, the tension, and the search for reality

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The QuestX team

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