Every now and again, a Coffee & Geography conversation leaves me feeling as though I’ve been gently lifted out of my familiar mental landscape and placed somewhere new — somewhere where the world is stretched wider, deeper, older. My chat with Omar Regalado Fernández, a Mexican paleobiologist now living in Germany, was exactly that kind of experience. It wasn’t just a conversation about fossils, or science, or identity. It was an excavation — of assumptions, of histories, of the stories science tells about itself. And like all good excavations, it revealed far more than either of us expected.
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