paleoanthropology

IPA: peɪɫioʊænθrʌpˈɑɫʌdʒi

noun

  • (anthropology) The scientific study of ancient human remains.
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Examples of "paleoanthropology" in Sentences

  • ends such as paleoanthropology, phylogenetics and natural history.
  • One interesting application of this sort of thing, I suppose, might be in paleoanthropology.
  • But he does write on many anthropological topics as well, such as paleoanthropology - one of my favorite topics!
  • Like science fiction, he writes, prehistoric fiction extrapolates from scientific discourse, in this case paleoanthropology.
  • Not surprisingly, Dean Falk settles on these two episodes, in "The Fossil Chronicles," to illustrate the highly contentious nature of paleoanthropology.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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