How to Use paleoanthropology in a Sentence

paleoanthropology

noun
  • For most of its history, paleoanthropology has been a science built out of superlatives.
    — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Those were my early and important days in my development as one of the leaders in paleoanthropology.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The success of this technique has big implications for the future of paleoanthropology.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But until paleoanthropology can unpick the threads of facial evolution with greater precision, the chin will continue to elude us.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • An evolution of ideas sheds new light The Jebel Irhoud fossils themselves are an example of how paleoanthropology has evolved over the decades.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
  • The discovery spoke to the big question confronting British paleoanthropology.
    — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
  • The research team hopes this spacecraft will do for planetary science what that skeleton did for paleoanthropology, by giving us a look at the formation and evolution of our solar system.
    — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Such small-scale resolution is almost unheard of in paleoanthropology.
    — Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • This neither proves the the hypothesis or conclusively disproves it—but that’s the challenge of working with scant evidence in paleoanthropology.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
  • And in any case, the beauty of the human focus of modern evolutionary genomics is that there are whole disciplines such as paleoanthropology which can serve as partners in interdisciplinary projects.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
  • 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.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The story of human evolution is changing all the time in what is a particularly exciting period for paleoanthropology, Stringer said.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • And in paleoanthropology sites, these variations can convey information about the local ecology and environment through time.
    — Paige Madison, National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Exactly when in our origin story that transition from arboreal to terrestrial living occurred has long been a contentious issue in paleoanthropology.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019
  • However, the problem with archeology and paleoanthropology is that the act of excavating a fossil or an artefact is inherently destructive.
    — Jesse Martin, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2021
  • For 40 years Piltdown Man existed as a legitimate fossil, which had a huge influence in the direction of paleoanthropology.
    — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2016
  • The fortuitous discovery in the Rising Star Cave system led to one of the most spectacular and puzzling fossil collections in paleoanthropology.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Greece, like much of southeastern Europe, hasn’t exactly been a hotspot for paleoanthropology—despite its geographic importance.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019
  • The study suggests that both walking upright and smaller canines evolved at roughly the same time, said Gen Suwa, a professor of paleoanthropology at the University of Tokyo who was also not involved in the study.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Just one meaningful face-to-face meeting can make your whole trip, but just imagine taking a helicopter flight to the Turkana Basin to look at fossils during an exclusive one-on-one meeting with the first family of paleoanthropology, the Leakeys.
    — Allison Olmsted, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Well, paleoanthropology most definitely is a science, reality and results are dictating to the intellectual antagonists.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2012
  • Ian Tattersall explores this pivotal moment in paleoanthropology, highlighting how Lucy, a fossil unearthed in the 1970s, transformed the field by challenging the traditional view that human ancestors were merely rough guides.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2024
  • 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.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017

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