September 2018, ScientificAmerican.com 15constraints in terms of ‘you must gulp your
food down, or it will all be gone,’ ” she says.
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ously about two million years ago, leaving no
descendants. But it was a major group of carni-
vores, with dozens of species spanning about
30 million years of North American fossil histo-
ry. “There’s really nothing like this group
of animals around today, and yet they lived in
North America and potentially had a really
important role in the ecosystem, especially
allowing for increased processing of carcasses
or recycling of nutrients,” says paleoecologist
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was not involved in the study. “So this is a bit
of a detective mystery in trying to reconstruct
the ecology of these animals.” — Diana Crow
February issue of American Sociological Review.
Hypothetical student governments “are a
far cry from studying the American public and
real political issues, so I’d hesitate to general-
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Trump’s supporters and was not involved in this
study. But “the idea is interesting,” she adds.
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election by surveying 402 participants, who
were told that one of Trump’s tweets about
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tively debunked. Trump supporters were more
likely than Clinton supporters to see the tweet
as not literal but as a challenge to the elite.
They were also twice as likely to rate their pre-
ferred candidate as highly “authentic.”
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lead author, says his studies have helped him
understand Trump’s supporters: “It gives me
the sense that the world is still rational to
some degree.” — Matthew Hutson
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