Paleontology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Seeing the forest with the leaves - clues to canopy placement from leaf fossil size and venation characteristics.

16 Dec 2009 Although a variety of leaf characteristics appear to be induced by light environment during development, analysis of ontogenetic changes in living broad leaved trees has suggested that a number of other traits also lumped into the classic 'sun' ... Read more...

Broken ribs: paleopathological analysis of costal fractures in the human identified skeletal collection from the Museu Bocage, Lisbon, Portugal (late 19th to middle 20th centuries).

30 Aug 2009 Although rarely reported in the anthropological literature, rib fractures are commonly found during the analysis of human skeletal remains of past and modern populations. This lack of published data precludes comparison between studies and restricts ... Read more...

Comparing the accuracy and precision of three techniques used for estimating missing landmarks when reconstructing fossil hominin crania.

30 Aug 2009 Various methodological approaches have been used for reconstructing fossil hominin remains in order to increase sample sizes and to better understand morphological variation. Among these, morphometric quantitative techniques for reconstruction are ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Paleontology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Seeing the forest with the leaves - clues to canopy placement from leaf fossil size and venation characteristics. 16 Dec 2009
• Fossil rewrites early human evolution. 6 Oct 2009
• Paleontology. Pushing back amber production. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus. The view from Afar. 30 Sep 2009
• Were crocodiles responsible for the stones we call tools? 15 Sep 2009
• [Everything is similar, certainly. Is everything equal?] 7 Sep 2009
• Broken ribs: paleopathological analysis of costal fractures in the human identified skeletal collection from the Museu Bocage, Lisbon, Portugal (late 19th to middle 20th centuries). 30 Aug 2009
• Comparing the accuracy and precision of three techniques used for estimating missing landmarks when reconstructing fossil hominin crania. 30 Aug 2009
• Fossils for all. 30 Aug 2009
• Good genes and good luck: ammonoid diversity and the end-Permian mass extinction. 26 Aug 2009
• Paleontology. Flourishing after the end-Permian mass extinction. 26 Aug 2009
• Fossil protection law comes under fire. 25 Aug 2009
• Paleontology. Draft rule threatens fossil excavations in China. 19 Aug 2009
• Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans. 12 Aug 2009
• Paleontology. Fire and stone. 12 Aug 2009
• Twilight of the Neandertals. 30 Jul 2009
• Possible brucellosis in an early hominin skeleton from sterkfontein, South Africa. 28 Jul 2009
• Mineralogical constraints on the paleoenvironments of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. 27 Jul 2009
• Hemiacodon engardae, a new species of omomyid primate from the earliest Uintan Turtle Bluff Member of the Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA. 19 Jul 2009
• A palaeolithic map from 13,660 calBP: engraved stone blocks from the Late Magdalenian in Abauntz Cave (Navarra, Spain). 19 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Paleontology'

Definition: The study of early forms of life through fossil remains.

Descriptor UI: D010163

Alternative terms: Paleontology;

Related Mesh Headings: Mummies;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.076.368.584;

Technical Notes: IM; SPEC: SPEC qualif; as NIM coord, no qualif; do not routinely check tags HISTORICAL ARTICLE & ANCIENT or MEDIEVAL: check only when the hist & ancient or medieval med aspects are particularly discussed; for prehist, ANCIENT tag is all right; paleontology is for pre-Columbian, nothing later; DF: PALEONTOL