Talk:Evolutionary anachronism

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The absurd speed of the pronghorn when compared to other living animals in North America is often speculated to be a result of its coevolution with the now extinct American cheetah, Miracinonyx. Should the article be modified to include this example and possibly others?--150.244.28.85 (talk) 12:14, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The past 2 days I have been working on improving the wikipedia page of Paul Schultz Martin, a mentor of mine and a coauthor of one of my papers. Martin also wrote the Foreword to my 2001 book, "The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms." So I know a lot about the topic of this wikipedia page. I have long been uncomfortable with the fact that whoever wrote it, featured me from the start. But it was Paul Martin and his coauthor (lead author) Daniel H. Janzen who originated the concept and utilized the term "anachronism" in the text and even the 1982 paper's title.

So, the changes I have made have corrected this problem, while also offering more substance for both scientific and popular readers to learn from. I plan to now go back to the Paul S Martin page tomorrow, so that I can create a section on his contributions on this anachronism topic.Cbarlow (talk) 01:44, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NEXT DAY (5 April 2023): I made a lot of small improvements in the introductory section paragraphs. I also corrected some problems in the references that pre-existed my own edits. Because I started working on this page yesterday for the express purpose of being able to point to this page while I continue editing the Paul Schultz Martin wikipedia page, I will now end my work on it, while I return to the Martin page — because now I can fill out the section I added there that I titled "Evolutionary anachonisms and their ghosts".Cbarlow (talk) 11:31, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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