Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science
Illustration

Balcones Research Center
Balcones Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, © 1997 by Phyllis Janik.
Scientists examining the head of Chasmosaurusmariscalensis hone their understanding of nature by comparing it against observations of the world. Clockwise from upper left: Prof. Paul Sereno, Univ. of Chicago; assistant Cathy Forster, Univ. of Chicago; students Hilary Tindle and Tom Evans, who discovered the skull in the field in March 1991 in Big Bend National Park, Texas.


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