Sentences with phrase «paleontology does»

«Analyses like these are powerful tools and go to show that paleontology doesn't always rely on the discovery of new fossils,» Giles said.

Not exact matches

How did you get into paleontology?

I just have to add: It helped that they gave me course credit in paleontology for the work I did on Jurassic Park.

Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

Kent is passionate about ancient sharks and rays, but he could not do that work because UMD's Department of Entomology, where he had his post, did not have a position for cartilaginous fish paleontology.

The nice thing about paleontology is that you can do most of it through on - the - job training and you don't really need a lot of book learning.

Carolyn Gramling reports that members of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology and the Paleontology Society of Washington began gathering in D.C. around 9:30 a.m., sporting foam fingers and signs reading «Don't let science go extinct.»

Unwin doubts it, noting modern paleontology's methods: «Computers allow us to approach our research more like they do in astronomy and physics and other hard sciences.

There was a fellow by the name of Don Baird, who was the curator of paleontology at the museum at Princeton, and he definitely didn't care that I didn't have a degree.

We're doing more and more molecular paleontology and applying statistics to it.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

And, while Bob had done a good bit of course work in paleontology, his thesis was more focused on biogeochemistry, which wasn't exactly a perfect match.

Martin's visit to Jamaica didn't change her career intentions, as she was already hooked on paleontology before she headed south.

Once I got the idea in my head that it could be done, I started talking to researchers who were truly fluent in the language, ideas, and techniques of both paleontology and molecular biology.

«Even five years ago, it wouldn't have been technically possible to do this kind of reconstruction,» says first author Jens N. Lallensack of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

«The Middle Pleistocene was a long period of about half a million years during which hominin evolution didn't proceed through a slow process of change with just one kind of hominin quietly evolving towards the classic Neandertal,» said lead author Juan - Luis Arsuaga, Professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

«Such use of modern technology is transforming the way we do paleontology by revealing new layers of information in these critical transitional fossils.»

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

Being a historian, he didn't know about geology and paleontology and astronomy, so he got colleagues to come in and give guest lectures.

Serrallonga went on to do a 1 - year master's degree in geology, human paleontology, and prehistory at the European Centre for Prehistoric Research at Tautavel in France.

He does no molecular biology work, his publications are in astronomy and paleontology.

«At first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statement.

Dino Info History / Science Students can do some great dinosaur research at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at www.ucmp.berkeley.edu.

To understand the historical sciences is not an easy task to do, and writing a paleontology assignment on the same makes it even harder.

And if it did that, it would revert to its constituent parts of climatology, paleontology, physics, etc, and no longer be climate science as such — so it isn't going to happen.

MICHAEL MACY: Paleontology is one of the areas that liberals and conservatives do tend to buy the same books.

Someone adopting the latter position takes seriously the evidence of paleontology, and so Dr. Spencer does — though not seriously enough, it seems.