Sentences with phrase «in paleobiology»

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things.

At Ames, Farmer turned back to his grad - school interests in paleobiology and sedimentology and, combining them with his interest in microbial communities, found his research niche: the study of microbial biosediments and their relation to early biosphere evolution.

«Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism» (1972) pp 82 - 115 in «Models in paleobiology», edited by Schopf, TJM Freeman, Cooper & Co, San Francisco.

Not exact matches

Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, started the company in 2011.

Currently a professor at the University of Alberta and research chair in dinosaur paleobiology, he spoke with Canadian Business online editor Josephine Lim.

Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Lead author, Kenshu Shimada, professor of paleobiology at DePaul University, said the findings are based on newly collected tiny fossil teeth, as well as a reinterpretation of previously reported specimens from Cretaceous rocks in the U.S. and Russia.

With more than 40 million specimens in the museum's Department of Paleobiology, «We are always learning new things about the vast legacy built by our predecessors at the museum,» Pyenson said.

To fill these gaps in the data, the Birmingham researchers compiled a new dataset from the Paleobiology Database and used advanced statistical methods to estimate diversity and biogeographic changes.

In 2002, Motani estimated that Stenopterygius, a 180 - million - year - old ichthyosaur from Europe, had a cruising speed comparable with tuna, which are among the fastest of all living fish (Paleobiology, vol 28, p 251).

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.

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

In 2011 Meredith Perry, then a senior paleobiology student at the University of Pennsylvania, reached for her laptop charger and found herself wondering whether that cumbersome cord might someday become obsolete.

Gregory Erickson, a Florida State University researcher who specializes in the use of bone and tooth histology to interpret the paleobiology of dinosaurs, was also part of the discovery team.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China; and Hou's colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Laura Soul is a Peter Buck Deep - Time postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History.

Citation: Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J, Hurum JH, von Koenigswald W, Smith BH (2009) Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology.

The presence of a complete skeleton with soft - tissue body contours and contents of the digestive tract brings us close to the paleobiology of the animal's life and death (the living individual is reconstructed in Fig.

Howard J. Falcon - Lang (2005) «Global climate analysis of growth rings in woods, and its implications for deep - time paleoclimate studies» Paleobiology: Vol.

Papers were published in Syllogeus, edited by Dr C.R.Harington of the Paleobiology Division.