Sentences with phrase «for paleoanthropology»

Establishment of a Geological Framework for Paleoanthropology.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

Not exact matches

It is of particular concern that Wong — who covers paleoanthropology for Scientific American — now claims to have done «most of the legwork on this particular editorial.»

So the world of paleoanthropology, the search for human fossil remains — it is like harder than ever right now.

Scientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an M.I.T. 150th - anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything

This opens the way for various other applications in paleontology and paleoanthropology, which we are currently exploring,» said study lead author Frido Welker of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of York.

Leakey's career over the past fifty years has spanned paleoanthropology, wildlife conservation and campaigning for political justice.

Naturally, paleoanthropology also plays a key role, as we have to turn to the fossil record for many clues about our ancient primate, human and nearly human ancestors.

Paleoanthropology concerns not just the hunt for human ancestors, but the study of the biological and technical origins of evolution [source: Middle Awash Project].

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

An excerpt from my book, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change which involves paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, and considerations from neurobiology and evolutionary biology.