paleoanthropology
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of paleoanthropology
First recorded in 1915–20; paleo- + anthropology
Vocabulary lists containing paleoanthropology
Paleontology - High School
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Their team tested several competing ideas about human evolution and migration in Africa, drawing from models proposed in paleoanthropology and genetics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
Prior to that, she was a paleoanthropology researcher and received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016 for work focused on hominin bipedalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
When exactly the breakthrough occurred, however, has been one of the most contested questions in all of paleoanthropology.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
It was July 24, 1976, the day of one of the most serendipitous discoveries in the history of paleoanthropology.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2022
Stay away from paleoanthropology, I was told as a young student smitten with fossils, and study less controversial stuff instead, like dinosaurs.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
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