Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil.

Autor:	Cisneros JC; Museu de Arqueologia e Paleontologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Teresina, PI 64049-550, Brazil., Raja NB; GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstr. 28, 91054 Erlangen, Germany., Ghilardi AM; Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil., Dunne EM; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK., Pinheiro FL; Laboratório de Paleobiologia, Universidade Federal do Pampa, São Gabriel, Brazil., Regalado Fernández OR; Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Tübingen Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Tübingen, Germany., Sales MAF; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE) - Campus Acopiara, Acopiara, Ceará, Brazil., Rodríguez-de la Rosa RA; Unidad Académica de Ciencias Biológicas-Unidad Académica de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Calzada Solidaridad, S/N, Campus II, C.P. 98060, Zacatecas, Mexico., Miranda-Martínez AY; Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, México., González-Mora S; Museo de Paleontología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, México., Bantim RAM; Laboratório de Paleontologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Rua Coronel Antônio Luís, 1161, Pimenta, Crato, Ceará, Brazil., de Lima FJ; Laboratório de Paleobiologia e Microestruturas, Centro Acadêmico de Vitória - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (CAV/UFPE), R. Alto do Reservatório - Alto José Leal, Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil., Pardo JD; University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Royal Society open science [R Soc Open Sci] 2022 Mar 02; Vol. 9 (3), pp. 210898. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 02 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.1098/rsos.210898
Abstrakt:	Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle- and low-income countries supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued, are still prevalent today in the field of palaeontology. In response to these unjust practices, countries such as Mexico and Brazil adopted protective laws and regulations during the twentieth century to preserve their palaeontological heritage. However, scientific colonialism is still reflected in many publications describing fossil specimens recovered from these countries. Here, we present examples of 'palaeontological colonialism' from publications on Jurassic-Cretaceous fossils from NE Mexico and NE Brazil spanning the last three decades. Common issues that we identified in these publications are the absence of both fieldwork and export permit declarations and the lack of local experts among authorships. In Mexico, access to many fossil specimens is restricted on account of these specimens being housed in private collections, whereas a high number of studies on Brazilian fossils are based on specimens illegally reposited in foreign collections, particularly in Germany and Japan. Finally, we outline and discuss the wider academic and social impacts of these research practices, and propose exhaustive recommendations to scientists, journals, museums, research institutions and government and funding agencies in order to overcome these practices. Competing Interests: We declare we have no competing interests. (© 2022 The Authors.)
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