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From the Ted Talk by Paul Sereno: Digging up dinosaurs

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With regard to the biogeographic question, the Earth is dividing. These are all landlubbing alaimns. There's a couple of choices. You get divided, and a continent's dvsoiiin cdeprnosors to a fork in the evolutionary tree, or you're crafty, and you manage to escape from one to the other and ersae that division, or you're living peacefully on each side, and on one side you just go extinct, and you survive on the other side and create a difference. And the ftoruh thing is that you actually did one or the other of those three things, but the paleontologist never found you. And you take those four inetcnass and you relziae you have a complex problem. And so, in addition to digging, I think we have some answers from the dinosaur record. I think these dinosaurs migrated — we call it dispersal — around the globe, with the slightest land bgirde. They did it within two or three degrees of the pole, to maintain similarity between continents. But when they were divided, indeed they were divided, and we do see the continents carving dnrfceeifes among dinosaurs.

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With regard to the biogeographic question, the Earth is dividing. These are all landlubbing _______. There's a couple of choices. You get divided, and a continent's ________ ___________ to a fork in the evolutionary tree, or you're crafty, and you manage to escape from one to the other and _____ that division, or you're living peacefully on each side, and on one side you just go extinct, and you survive on the other side and create a difference. And the ______ thing is that you actually did one or the other of those three things, but the paleontologist never found you. And you take those four _________ and you _______ you have a complex problem. And so, in addition to digging, I think we have some answers from the dinosaur record. I think these dinosaurs migrated — we call it dispersal — around the globe, with the slightest land ______. They did it within two or three degrees of the pole, to maintain similarity between continents. But when they were divided, indeed they were divided, and we do see the continents carving ___________ among dinosaurs.

Solution


  1. corresponds
  2. fourth
  3. erase
  4. animals
  5. bridge
  6. differences
  7. instances
  8. realize
  9. division

Original Text


With regard to the biogeographic question, the Earth is dividing. These are all landlubbing animals. There's a couple of choices. You get divided, and a continent's division corresponds to a fork in the evolutionary tree, or you're crafty, and you manage to escape from one to the other and erase that division, or you're living peacefully on each side, and on one side you just go extinct, and you survive on the other side and create a difference. And the fourth thing is that you actually did one or the other of those three things, but the paleontologist never found you. And you take those four instances and you realize you have a complex problem. And so, in addition to digging, I think we have some answers from the dinosaur record. I think these dinosaurs migrated — we call it dispersal — around the globe, with the slightest land bridge. They did it within two or three degrees of the pole, to maintain similarity between continents. But when they were divided, indeed they were divided, and we do see the continents carving differences among dinosaurs.

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