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 * ... that biological anthropologist David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the Neotropics because it allowed him to study both primates and birds, his two favorite subjects?


 * ... that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?


 * ... that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin?


 * ... that archeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, the great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, described a pre-Columbian civilization in Brazil as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?


 * ... that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation?