Sentences with phrase «paleontology over»

These imaging techniques have revolutionized the study of paleontology over the past decade, allowing paleontologists to gain essential insights into the anatomy, development and preservation of important specimens.

Right now if you asked the National Science Foundation how much they thought they were going to be funding in paleontology over the next 30 years, they'd probably say zero, because they're not very much into historical science.

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The Creationists over at the DI cite him as being the leader of their Paleontology Research program even though, by his own admission, he has no credentials in the field.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

At the same time, paleontology tells us that eukaryotes are diversifying and expanding over large areas of the ocean.

When the localities are also organized chronologically, as they are in the Burke vertebrate paleontology collections, I can trace how those communities changed over time.

We know from archeology and paleontology that in fact the overall temperature of the earth is a relatively stable quantity over very long periods of time.