Sentences with word «paleoanthropology»

The world of paleoanthropology gets thoroughly shaken pretty often these days.

Education: Ph.D. in paleoanthropology from Pierre and Marie Curie University; M.Sc.

Corwin Sullivan, a paleontologist at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology who helped interpret the remains, thinks Yutyrannus «would have been rather shaggy - looking, a killer fuzz ball with deadly teeth and claws.»

The skull was then moved to Centro de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion y Comportamiento Humanos, a restoration laboratory and paleoanthropology research center in Madrid, Spain.

The Hadar project is the longest running paleoanthropology field program in the Ethiopian rift valley, now spanning more than 38 years.

Ann Gibbons Contributing Correspondent Writes about paleoanthropology, anthropology, and biological sciences.

Regardless of the age, Berger said earlier this year, before publishing the H. naledi discovery, the fossils will force paleoanthropology to rethink long - held theories about human evolution.

The energy cost of locomotion is a question that has been widely studied and debated within Paleoanthropology because of its important implications.

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

«This is an amazing assemblage of fossils that should keep paleoanthropology buzzing for a long time,» says Tattersall.

Colleagues of the Max Planck team are delighted so much progress has been made in defining the Neanderthal genome, so soon after the announcement, a few years ago, of the complete human genome but key figures in the fields of evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology question whether the complex statistical analysis outlined in the paper in fact supports the hypothesis there was interbreeding between the two species.

Naturally, paleoanthropology also plays a key role, as we have to turn to the fossil record for many clues about our ancient primate, human and nearly human ancestors.

«These research findings call into question one of the most dogmatic assertions in paleoanthropology since Charles Darwin, which is that the human lineage originated in Africa.

Paleoanthropology concerns not just the hunt for human ancestors, but the study of the biological and technical origins of evolution [source: Middle Awash Project].

The rare find is the first time scientists have unearthed complete pterosaur eggs, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology announced Thursday.

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.

An excerpt from my book, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change which involves paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, and considerations from neurobiology and evolutionary biology.

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.

In an email interview with Newsweek, María Martinón - Torres, lecturer in paleoanthropology at UCL, says the study is solid with an impressive amount of data: «It is important because sagittal crest is a trait that paleontologists have classically employed to identify and distinguish between different primates species, what we call taxonomy.

So two of the foremost creationist experts on paleoanthropology are both certain that 1470 is not intermediate between human and ape, yet one of them thinks it an ape, and the other thinks it is a human!

Establishment of a Geological Framework for Paleoanthropology.

Paleoanthropology is a well - established field.

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.

Did you actually read the option for coconut sugar in the recipe??? As someone who has an advanced degree in paleoanthropology, I am well aware that Swerve is not paleo, which is why there is a second option.

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.

Now, paleoanthropology is responding to its own complex case.

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.»

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.

But a series of papers published in early 2015 have solidified an emerging paradigm shift in paleoanthropology — Australopithecus africanus and other Pleistocene hominins, traditionally considered not to have made stone tools, have a human - like trabecular bone pattern in their hand bones consistent with stone tool knapping and use.

With several colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, we were able to establish that certain key raptor dinosaurs were fully plumaged, with feathers that were entirely modern in structure.

Because the other individuals were smaller, and because pieces of some of their vertebrae hadn't fully fused, those creatures are presumed to be juveniles, says Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

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.

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.

Currently, there only exist six original teeth, recovered between 1949 and 1959 and in 1966, which are described and compared in this work led by Xing Song, of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of Beijing, in which María Martinón - Torres, director of the CENIEH, and José María Bermúdez de Castro, coordinator of the hominid Paleobiology program, have also participated.

Evidence presented in April at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting in Chicago suggests that Neandertal behavior resembled that of early modern humans.

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.

In what is shaping up to be a battle of Tolkienian proportions, the tiny remains from Flores, Indonesia — paleoanthropology's hobbit — have once again come under attack.

«There's a mantra in paleoanthropology,» Jungers says, «and it goes like this: We need more fossils.»

«The idea that the chimpanzee is basically a living missing link is deeply embedded in paleoanthropology.

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.

Recent fossil discoveries have resonated throughout Chinese culture, as evidenced by the giant reconstruction of Sinraptor posed outside the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Courtesy of Xiaolin Wang and Zhonghe Zhou / Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology / Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

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.

Until I went back to Beijing, the specimen was brought to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, in Beijing.