Colonialism's legacy still casts a shadow over the way paleontologists conduct their research and learn about the world. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern.
. “We looked at how socioeconomic factors and the history of colonialism affects research in paleontology,” says Nussaïbah Raja-Schoob, a Ph.D. student in paleontology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and co-lead author of the paper.
While a nation’s wealth, as reported by the WorldBank and the United Nations, was important, Raja-Schoob and Dunne uncovered the biggest factor influencing a country’s paleontological productivity with one yes-no question: “Has this nation benefited from colonialism?” “They come, they work there, but there's no skills exchange. There is no collaboration. There is just taking of the resources and leaving,” says Aviwe Matiwane, a paleobotanist at South Africa’s Rhodes University and a co-author of the paper led by Raja-Schoob and Dunne.
Cisneros adds that there’s not much excuse these days for researchers who claim they can’t find local experts to collaborate: “Welcome to the internet. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s difficult to hide nowadays. … We do want collaboration, but it needs to be real collaboration.”
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