Sentences with phrase «how ancient organisms»
Palaeontologists can decipher how ancient organisms lived and interacted using taphonomy, the study of how fossils form.
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These scientists can study many different subjects, including the microbiology and genetics of living organisms, how species that share the same community adapt to changing conditions over time, and the fossil record (to assess how various ancient communities of species might be related to each other and to modern - day relatives).
Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.