Sentences with phrase «human paleontology»

Core faculty members advise students and conduct research in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, dental anthropology, molecular systematics, genetics, phylogeography, and primate behavior and life - history.

Paleontologist Fernando Ramirez Rozzi discovered something far more nefarious while comparing the jawbones of a Neanderthal child and an early modern human last year at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris.

Serrallonga went on to do a 1 - year master's degree in geology, human paleontology, and prehistory at the European Centre for Prehistoric Research at Tautavel in France.

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Seeking to understand the true teachings of Christ by reading the Bible is a lot like trying to understand the lives of pre-historic humans by reading their abandoned camp sites using the science of paleontology.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

«With the skulls we found,» co-author Ignacio Martínez, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alcalá, added, «it was possible to characterize the cranial morphology of a human population of the European Middle Pleistocene for the first time.»

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

Paleontology studies such as this can «establish an ecosystem's long - term past before humans altered it,» says invertebrate paleontologist Sally Walker of the University of Georgia, Athens.

«Hold on,» I imagine a reader asking, «human ecology, sea ice physics, dinosaur paleontology, history — is this guy a legitimate expert in any single field?»

Together, some argue the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

But together, Cappellini and others argue, the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

Hlusko's interest in the evolution of bones and teeth, and the genes that control them, comes out of her interest in paleontology and human origins.

Welland provides a broad introduction to the science of sand (the physics of granular materials, sedimentology, paleontology, archaeology, planetary science) and sand's human context (including religion, art, mathematics, and exploration).

Seeking simple inherited traits Hlusko's interest in the evolution of bones and teeth, and the genes that control them, comes out of her interest in paleontology and human origins.

This volume brings together experts in human and primate ecology, paleontology, and evolutionary medicine.

She covers the world of human and animal behavior, as well as paleontology and other science topics.

From Paleontology to biodiversity, from geology and minerals to energy, from birds to the human body, from engineering to astronomy; the galleries feature a broad and diverse set of scientific matters.

She covers the world of human and animal behavior, as well as paleontology and other science topics.