Sentences with phrase «of paleoanthropology»
The world of paleoanthropology gets thoroughly shaken pretty often these days.
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The tension between wanting to advance a surprising new theory and wanting to eliminate all uncertainty from it, Braun says, is «a struggle at the soul of paleoanthropology.»
That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.
In The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, he traces the contingencies, false starts, and diversity of opinions that have characterized the intellectual history of paleoanthropology from Darwin to today.
«The whole profession of paleoanthropology is undergoing a big bout of indigestion right now because they've had a lot of material dropped on them,» says Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
Nicknamed hobbit people, Homo floresiensis «caught the field off guard — they were the black swan of paleoanthropology,» says Bill Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York.
Johanson and Leakey, elder statesmen in the field of paleoanthropology, charmed and informed their audience with their reminiscences and views on the study of human origins.
The Strategy of Paleoanthropology: Early African Hominids.
Profs. Richard and Meave Leakey stopped by TBI Turkwel for a visit with the field school students in between the end of the Paleoanthropology module and the start of Archaeology.
The site is where Lee Berger's young son discovered the first fossil fragments that would come to be known as Australopithecus sediba — and shake up the world of paleoanthropology.
The study offers new insight into the mysterious death of one of paleoanthropology's most iconic individuals, and the scientists involved say it may give clues to how much time her species, Australopithecus afarensis, still spent in the trees.
The discovery would shake up the world of paleoanthropology.