Sentences with word «palaeobiologist»

In June, a team led by Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary palaeobiologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, sequenced ancient DNA from bison that lived to the north and south of the passageway and found that these populations were cut off from each other during the last Ice Age until at least 13,000 — 13,400 years ago, when they started mixing again.

Many of the speakers, including many of the scientists, starting with the very opening paper by Cambridge palaeobiologist Simon Conway - Morris, were keen to emphasise above all that whilst accepting fully the rectitude of the science of the biological theory of evolution (mutation with natural selection), yet a «totality of explanation it is not» (Conway - Morris's words).

But as palaeobiologist Martin Brasier of the University of Oxford explores the evolution of the complex cell, it becomes clear how much we owe to those simple prokaryotes.

When palaeobiologist Rachel Wood from the University of Edinburgh, UK, examined the rock formations, she found spots where a primitive animal called Cloudina had taken over parts of the microbial reef.

He donated it to the Swedish Museum of Natural History, where it sat in a drawer for more than 40 years until palaeobiologists took a closer look for a study published today in Science.

The catarrhine family tree — one of two primate lineages, and the one that includes humans — regularly attracts requests for revision from palaeontologists bearing fossils such as Ida, according to palaeobiologist James Tarver, lead author of the latest study.

According to a team of researchers including palaeobiologist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling from FAU, Acropora, by far the most common genus of coral with the most different species, could lose the fight against the climate change being caused by humans, sparking the destruction of underwater biotopes.

In a new study, palaeobiologists at Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU) and their research partners have now shown that signs that the largest mass extinction event in the Earth's history was approaching became apparent much earlier than previously believed, and point out that the same indicators can be observed today.

«This is the most significant event in Earth evolution,» says Guy Narbonne, a palaeobiologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.

«Epigenetic modification strikes me as an ideal way for animals to respond to environmental change,» says Alan Cooper, a palaeobiologist at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Jay Kelley, a palaeobiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, points out that the fossil record from the time in question is much better in Europe than in Africa.