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Land of giants

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Expansion of the railways across the western United States changed the face of vertebrate palaeontology, and perhaps the country itself, explains Ross MacPhee.

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  1. Ross MacPhee is curator of vertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA. His forthcoming book on extinctions is So Short a Season. macphee@amnh.org ,

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