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When Armor Met Lips(crookedtimber.org)
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A Crooked Timber essay by Doug Muir on early armored cephalopods like Plectronoceras and the evolutionary arrival of jawed predators with lips.
Fuck Nuance (2015)(crookedtimber.org)
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