paleoanthropology
古人类学,旧人类学,溯源
Definitions
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- : the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
Examples
It would take more than two decades of new fossil finds and advances in geologic dating for Dart to be vindicated — and for Africa to become the epicenter of paleoanthropology.
Welcoming a more diverse group of researchers into paleoanthropology, Athreya says, will reveal blind spots and biases as scientists add to and amend the tale.
The first 20 years of this century have been the most exciting decades of paleoanthropology since the emergence of the field, in large part due to the rise of paleogenetics.
Over the last 20 years, genomics, ancient DNA, and paleoanthropology have joined forces to completely overhaul our understanding of the origin of our species.
So some of the vocabulary of human paleoanthropology I was familiar with before I got to college because of that series.
And the clavicle alone, Berger says, would have electrified the world of paleoanthropology.