Dinosaurs: How we know what we know

[All talks are free to attend.] Here, we explore the spread of hypothesis testing in modern palaeobiology in the past 60 years. Our focus is dinosaurs, and we show how standard techniques in functional biomechanics, ecology, and evolution are now applied even-handedly to modern and fossil taxa to supplant the earlier, more speculative approaches. This new, analytical approach combines what we term neontological toolkits, sets of established observations and rules from the modern world that we ca