Image by Nick Farrantello, via Rational Crank.
This parody image has been making the rounds lately. It's the work of Nick Farrantello, who posted it on his blog Rational Crank. On Facebook, I jokingly asked where Dr. Thomas Holtz was. Of course, he didn't think he deserved a spot, but let's face it: we'd like to see some paleontologists at the table. So let's put it up for debate: what paleontologists would we set at a Paleontology Last Supper? This needn't be limited to dinosaur paleontology, or even vertebrate paleontology. We've got thirteen spots to fill with the people who have given us the most insight into the lost worlds of the past. Who should sit at them?
Mary Anning, William Smith, more Leakeys than one would care to name, Joachim Barrande, and definitely Warren Somerville (to make up for me not realising his interest all those years ago).
ReplyDeleteBakker deserves a seat for sure. One or more of the Sternbergs should be there and Barnum Brown while we're at it. For people who supported and helped Palaeo in outreach Knight and Paul should be too (even if I'm still furious at Paul for his recent online behaviour towards the community).
ReplyDeleteGSP, right in the middle!
DeleteHaha!
DeleteAgassiz, Couvier, da Vinci, Dollo, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Gould, Lamark, Osborn, Ostrom, Owen, Romer, Simpson, Zittel.
ReplyDeleteJohn Ostrom, Sir Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, Barnum Brown, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Henry Huxley, Xu Xing, Bob Bakker, Mary Anning, Gideon Mantell
ReplyDelete...and ME!lol jk
Konrad von Gesner, Cuvier, Mary Anning, Darwin, Owen, Mantell, Oppel, Osborn, Simpson, Ostrom, Gould, Sereno y Bonaparte
DeleteAlso: Roy Chapman Andrews, Paul Sereno, Othniel Charles Marsh
DeleteMarsh, Owen, Darwin, Cope, Knight (because that would be super), Bakker, Ostrom, and Anning. Why is Pasteur in the "Judas" seat? I guess someone has to be...
ReplyDeletein no order: Romer, Simpson, Carroll, Owen, Anning, William Smith, Gould, Sternberg the elder, Colbert, Walcott, Lamark, Marsh and Cope (almost to recent of a list, and too many VP people, but there you go)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe no one thought of Colbert, Carroll or Walcott!!
Cuvier centre stage, with Gesner, Von Zittel, Nopsca, Anning, Mantell, Owen, Huxley, Leidy, Cope, Marsh, Dollo, and Ostrom around him.
ReplyDeleteAnd either Cope or Marsh in the Judas seat, depending on your preference.
DeleteIt has to be Richard Owen in the Judas seat.
DeleteAgreed: if anyone has to be Judas, it should be Owen. But would that make Mantell Jesus?
DeleteMantell
ReplyDeleteReverend William Fox of Brixton (now Brighstone)