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Riley Black is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology and natural history who blogs regularly for Scientific American.
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Riley Black is a freelance science writer specializing in evolution, paleontology and natural history who blogs regularly for Scientific American.
Read more from this author | Follow @laelaps
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