Sentences with phrase «as paleontology»

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

As my paleontology teacher used to say, there are two kinds of people in the world: lumpers and splitters.

Her use of data, maps and models from technology and scientific disciplines as diverse as paleontology, archaeology and astrophysics becomes the object and the art.

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

Being scooped is also «perhaps of less concern in a field such as paleontology, where the results are often tied to particular specimens or locations,» Dooley adds.

The study of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology, paleoanthropology and archaeology.

Not exact matches

The Creationists over at the DI cite him as being the leader of their Paleontology Research program even though, by his own admission, he has no credentials in the field.

The growth of biological knowledge is producing scientific facts that contradict the evolutionary theory, not confirm it, a fact that famous Prof. Steven Jay Gould of Harvard has described as «the trade secret of paleontology.»

scot I will take that as a «no» You are not willing to look up paleontology and learn what has been accomplished in that field in the last 150 years.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Evolution has been relentlessly tested and confirmed and is further validated in direct applications ranging from medicine to agriculture to engineering (the same is true of all the other relevant scientific disciplines which creationism requires to be so fundamentally flawed as to be effectively useless, i.e. physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, astronomy, etc).

Though I find paleontology, geology, genetics, etc. fascinating and have been interested in fossils since I found fossilized ferns as a boy, I understand that not everyone has the time nor inclination to familiarize himself or herself with findings in those areas.

That the fossil record is in important respects hostile to a Darwinist interpretation has long been known to insiders as the «trade secret of paleontology,» and the secret is now coming out in the open.

The description of the Noosphere and its attendant biology, as here propounded, is no more opposed to the Divine Transcendence, to Grace, to the Incarnation or to the ultimate Parousia, than is the science of paleontology to the Creation, or of embryology to the First Cause.

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Here it is that we see the part played by paleontology, as well as the secret vice of our critics.

B. # 2 (atheistic evolutionism) has a severe problem in that it needs to contend with a fossil record that is acknowledged by the paleontology community as reflecting extremely long periods of stasis, followed by extremely short periods of explosive change, the result of which is «new species appearing fully formed in the fossil record».

He specializes in earth sciences and paleontology but often tackles topics such as astronomy, planetary sciences, materials sciences, and engineering.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

Beside one is an open Bible; beside the other is a standard paleontology textbook — the message being, as it will be explained to me many times before I leave, that everyone's view of reality is inescapably colored and distorted by that person's «starting assumptions.»

Another change brought him to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where for the next 5 years he taught a heavy load in earth science, paleontology, oceanography, and sedimentology as Visiting and Adjunct Professor.

They are proving as critical to understanding the workings of evolution as classic paleontology studies such as Stephen Jay Gould's research on the pace of change in mollusks.»

Martin's visit to Jamaica didn't change her career intentions, as she was already hooked on paleontology before she headed south.

Moabosaurus now joins a range of other findings currently on display at BYU's Museum of Paleontology — though, until its placard is updated, it's identified as «Not yet named» (pronunciation: NOT - yet - NAIM - ed).

Without any lower - body bones for N. alesi, it's too early to rule out the possibility that Nyanzapithecus gave rise to modern gibbons and perhaps Oreopithecus as well, says paleontologist David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona.

Previously she worked at Science magazine for six years, both as a reporter covering paleontology and polar science and as the editor of the news in brief section.

The research project was carried out as part of an international scientific collaboration that is helping create and study paleontology collections in Morocco with the aim of conserving the country's rich fossil heritage.

«But he's going to be remembered as «the guy who founded the first national museum of paleontology in Morocco.»

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.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

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.

Recent fossil discoveries have resonated throughout Chinese culture, as evidenced by the giant reconstruction of Sinraptor posed outside the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Like many science writers, I work in a broad range of disciplines — fields as disparate as astrophysics, psychology, reproductive biology, nanotechnology, veterinary medicine, and paleontology.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Brown's real legacy lies with his discoveries themselves, which still serve as a foundation for numerous geologic and biological research projects in paleontology.

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.

The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the first known in this region from well - preserved fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.

And luckily, Cynthia Marshall Faux is both — with doctorates in veterinary medicine as well as geology (with a specialty in vertebrate paleontology).

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

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.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

3 Robert Hooke contributed to fields as diverse as astronomy, architecture, paleontology, and physics, but his most important accomplishment was in biology.

An international paleontology team used finite element analysis, a technique commercially used to measure stress on objects such as cars and orthopedic implants.

Transitional fossils, as «missing links» are known in paleontology, can still be controversial.

One view of the Phylogeny of Life on Earth (at the University of California at Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology) highlights the role of archeabacteria among prokaryotes — as a separate «Archaea domain» apart from Eubacteria — in the development of cellular life with nuclei (eukaryotes).

When the localities are also organized chronologically, as they are in the Burke vertebrate paleontology collections, I can trace how those communities changed over time.

Jade examines an oviraptorosaur metatarsal (foot bone) as part of her work with the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Grant.