Definition of paleoanthropology
: a branch of anthropology dealing with fossil hominids
Updated on: 23 Feb 2018
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With no artist statement forthcoming from our Stone Age ancestors, the show takes on a strange admixture of science and guesswork, paleoanthropology and wishful thinking.
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Now that the researchers have published their study of Engare Sero’s enigmatic geology, Pobiner and Harcourt-Smith are hopeful that the paleoanthropology analysis isn’t far behind.
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The Power of Protein The study of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology, paleoanthropology and archaeology.
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For 40 years Piltdown Man existed as a legitimate fossil, which had a huge influence in the direction of paleoanthropology.
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An evolution of ideas sheds new light The Jebel Irhoud fossils themselves are an example of how paleoanthropology has evolved over the decades.
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This neither proves the the hypothesis or conclusively disproves it—but that’s the challenge of working with scant evidence in paleoanthropology.
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The discovery spoke to the big question confronting British paleoanthropology.
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First Known Use of paleoanthropology
1908
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Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about paleoanthropology
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