Sentences with phrase «human paleobiology»
Chet C. Sherwood — Professor of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology; Director of GW Mind - Brain Institute, The George Washington University
http://www.chimpanzeebrain.org/
Cheryl D. Stimpson — Senior Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University
A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at different rates for different species, especially during the evolution of Homo, the genus that includes humans, chewing teeth tended to evolve at more similar rates.
Kevin Hatala of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, recently analyzed one set of prints at Laetoli using photogrammetry.
Not exact matches
«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.
The atlas opens new pathways for the investigation of the paleobiology and evolution of what may arguably be one of the most famous, yet surprisingly poorly known animals that went extinct in recent human history.
Whether dealing with historically intact or novel ecosystems — the 47 percent of Earth's ice - free land that has been altered by humans — scientists need to look at the paleobiology of the region, that is, what the ecosystem looked like before humans altered it, and seek to rebuild it to some degree toward that natural balance, Barnosky said.