Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of extinct and prehistoric hominins and their primate relatives, chiefly by examining fossils and artifacts.
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- noun anthropology The
scientific study of ancient human remains.
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- noun the scientific study of human fossils
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Examples
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One interesting application of this sort of thing, I suppose, might be in paleoanthropology.
Choosing To Evolve 2005
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The history of paleoanthropology, which is supposed to be the focus in addition to the paleontology, is indeed a topic worthy of a History Channel documentary.
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But he does write on many anthropological topics as well, such as paleoanthropology - one of my favorite topics!
Anthropology.net 2009
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ends such as paleoanthropology, phylogenetics and natural history.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan 2010
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ends such as paleoanthropology, phylogenetics and natural history.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan 2010
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But Ms. Falk has brought the subjects together with a personal touch, producing an appealing narrative that compares an old debate (the Taung child) with a newer one (hobbits) to gauge how much—or how little—paleoanthropology has changed in the past century.
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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In the annals of paleoanthropology—the study of ancient humans—two disputes stand out: the discovery of the "Taung child" in 1925 and the revelation in 2004 of fossil "hobbits" on Flores Island in Indonesia.
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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The compressed history of Ethiopia that made up the first part of the exhibit felt tacked on ( "okay, we'll let you take this unique artifact on the road, but you have to tell something about our country"), the hands-on section in the middle on the practice of paleoanthropology and the structure of
1/31/09: Thirty-one random days make a month scarlettina 2009
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Like science fiction, he writes, prehistoric fiction extrapolates from scientific discourse, in this case paleoanthropology.
Cave Man Stories 2009
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Not surprisingly, Dean Falk settles on these two episodes, in "The Fossil Chronicles," to illustrate the highly contentious nature of paleoanthropology.
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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