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Always enjoy checking the 'facts' posted by some people.
If one takes the time to read the descriptions of the research papers listed by Dr Crockford, one will find that her specific field of research is evolutionary- and Archaeozoology, not research based on present-day findings. She has published no peer-reviewed papers on modern polar bears.
For instance, a few of the papers listed on her website:
**Crockford, S. J. 2012. Annotated map of ancient polar bear remains of the world.
*Nishida, S., West, D., Crockford, S. and Koike, H. 2012. Ancient DNA analysis for the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) from archaeological sites on Adak, Aleutian Islands.
**Crockford, S.J. and G. Frederick 2011. Neoglacial sea ice and life history flexibility in ringed and fur seals.
*Crockford, S.J., Frederick, G. & Wigen, R. 2002. The Cape Flattery fur seal: An extinct species of Callorhinus in the eastern north Pacific? Canadian Journal of Archaeology
**Crockford, S.J. 2012. Directionality in polar bear hybridization. Comment (May 1) to Hailer et al. 2012. “Nuclear genomic sequences reveal that polar bears are an old and distinct bear lineage.”
**Crockford, S.J. 2004. Animal Domestication and Vertebrate Speciation: A Paradigm for the Origin of Species. Ph.D. dissertation
Crockford is an adjunct professor at UBC but she does not teach any courses on modern polar bear environments and consequences for the species. She teaches a course for Anthropology students on animal domestication and speciation and advises on matters of paleozoology and archaeozoology.
From Encyclopedia Britannica
ZOOLOGY
Zoology, branch of biology that studies the members of the animal kingdom and animal life in general. It includes both the inquiry into individual animals and their constituent parts, even to the molecular level, and the inquiry into animal populations, entire faunas, and the relationships of animals to each other, to plants, and to the nonliving environment. Though this wide range of studies results in some isolation of specialties within zoology, the conceptual integration in the contemporary study of living things that has occurred in recent years emphasizes the structural and functional unity of life rather than its diversity.
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Oops there goes your argument.
Meanwhile you still ignorant of the public ugly attack on her last winter?