Sentences with phrase «on paleoanthropology»
John Hawks weblog on paleoanthropology, evolution and genetics is Tracking research into human origins, from the field to the laboratory.
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In my efforts to get into graduate school in paleoanthropology, I was helping on a research project at the Barbados Primate Research Center and Wildlife Reserve.
Her work focuses on topics ranging from neuroscience to paleoanthropology, and follow - up stories on a gene - editing tool, NgAgo, she co-authored with colleagues recently won China's Annual Investigative Reporting Award in 2017.
Anchiornis possesses well - developed feathers on all four limbs, and comes from a «critical stage along the line to birds», says Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.
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.»
Hong - yu Yi of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, says she's reserving judgment on the specimen's identity until further analysis.
A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.
«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.
«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.
When these human species lived and who begat whom, evolutionarily speaking, is constantly being studied and debated, so it's exciting when paleoanthropology nerds get a new piece of meat to chew on.
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.