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I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics, the queen of the sciences up on top, down through a bunch of squishy subjects, ending up with sociology and psychology on the bottom. Palaeontologists are not much above that in their conventional ordering.

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Richard Lewontin
Age: 92 †
Born: 1929
Born: March 29
Died: 2021
Died: July 4
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