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Postdoctoral researcher @UTSC Evolutionary biologist | 🇨🇴 #CienciaCriolla
Dec 3, 2020 37 tweets 19 min read
Ok people, the current hype in #Science around #Archaeology research in #Chiribiquete and #LaLindosa in #Colombia, albeit deserving, it's a clear example of how scientific discovery is colonised and monopolised. We need to have an awkward conversation 1/n
observer.com/2020/11/prehis… As a Colombian expat in #Science, I was always surprised with how places like Chiribiquete were pretty much unknown overseas, considering their scientific, cultural and biological value, and that almost any Colombian has heard about them 2/n