Sentences with phrase «chinese palaeontologists»
Most Chinese palaeontologists — and a few ardent supporters from the West — think that the transitional fossils are evidence that Peking Man was an ancestor of modern Asian people.
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But many researchers, including most Chinese palaeontologists, contend that the materials from China are different from European and African H. heidelbergensis fossils, despite some apparent similarities.
Some Western researchers suggest that there is a hint of nationalism in Chinese palaeontologists» support for continuity.
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Discovered in northern China and acquired recently by palaeontologists from a Chinese fossil dealer, it is about 50 centimetres long and lived 160 million years ago, a few million years before Archaeopteryx graced the skies.
«It's a story without an ending,» says Wu Xinzhi, a palaeontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing.
River flooding boosts carbon emissions, six new species of Chinese dragon millipedes discovered, how ancient animals adapted to climate change, maths tell palaeontologists where to find fossils, and the Arctic Ocean was ice - free ten million years ago.