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Episode 96: The Bone Wars

Half-Arsed History

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Who Won the Bone Wars?

Marsh discovered 80 new species to Coke's 56 and Marsh also discovered all the club bangers that we love today. He was a founder of neo-Lamarquism, which is an evolutionary theory that says traits acquired within an organism's lifetime can be passed onto its offspring. And finally, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Peabody Museum at Yale - one of the biggest and one of the most important natural history museums in the world.

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