Sentences with phrase «paleontological records»

Paleontological records indicate the occurrence of open woodlands in a dry inland climate at the present - day Arctic coast in western Beringia during the Last Interglacial.

Paleontological records indicate that global mean sea level is highly sensitive to temperature (7) and that ice sheets, the most important contributors to large - magnitude sea - level change, can respond to warming on century time scales (8), while models suggest ice sheets require millennia to approach equilibrium (9).

According to the genetic and paleontological record, we only started to leave Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago.

And you can see in the paleontological record that from that point on, the mammals burst forth, getting big, getting varied, taking over.

Many different biological responses to climate change have been documented, both as an ongoing response to climatic change underway now and in the paleontological record.

The paleontological record and historical observations of species indicate that in the past species have survived climate change by their constituent populations moving to a climatically suitable area, or, if they can not move, by evolving adaptations to the new climate.

As sedimentary basins subside, they preserve a geochemical, mineralogical, sedimentary, and paleontological record of evolving depositional environments.

Not exact matches

[49] Dawkins therefore commits himself here to an empirical claim about the geological record, in contrast to his earlier claim that, «The paleontological evidence can be argued about, and I am not qualified to judge it.»

Lectures and panel discussions considered both anatomical and behavioral evidence for the nature and location of the appearance of modern humans within the African paleontological and archaeological records.

Individual model parameterizations were constrained by paleontological data, and the overall modeled relationship between global temperature and sea level matched well against records from four previous warm periods: preindustrial, the last interglacial, marine isotope stage 11, and the mid-Pliocene.