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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his field season in the town of Lingjing, near the city of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out of the sediments.

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.

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.

John Hawks weblog on paleoanthropology, evolution and genetics is Tracking research into human origins, from the field to the laboratory.