Sentences with phrase «molecular paleontology»
«It's a work in progress, but molecular paleontology might show us how dinosaurs are related to each other and even provide some physiological insights if we're really lucky.»
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At the Museum of the Rockies we house one of the largest dinosaur collections in the country, and maintain two laboratories, one for the study of cellular and molecular paleontology, and the other for 3 - D imaging utilizing data from CT and 3 - D scanners.
We're doing more and more molecular paleontology and applying statistics to it.
Not exact matches
One issue here is that few, if any, have the time or expertise to examine all of the relevant data from all the relevant fields, that is, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, organismal and molecular biology, ecology, etc, etc..
It is a way to teach the public about yeast, molecular biology, and paleontology.
Schweitzer was also stymied by her unconventional fusion of paleontology and molecular biology.
Once I got the idea in my head that it could be done, I started talking to researchers who were truly fluent in the language, ideas, and techniques of both paleontology and molecular biology.
Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.
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.
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.
He further asserts that although molecular techniques will never replace paleontology, «they will complement it and expand on what we can competently infer.»
He does no molecular biology work, his publications are in astronomy and 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.