Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology
. As practitioners of a historical science, paleontologists and geoscientists are well versed in the idea that the ability to understand and to anticipate the future relies upon our collective knowledge of the past.
Pedro M. Monarrez +12 more
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Didactic Methods for Palentology Teaching in the Brazilian Basic Education [PDF]
Due to the Paleontology teaching deficiency in the Brazilian Basic Education, an effort to develop new didactic methods have been applied in order to the improvement students learning.
Bruna Borba Dias, Rodrigo Milek Martin
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Phylogenetic Signal and Bias in Paleontology
An unprecedented amount of evidence now illuminates the phylogeny of living mammals and birds on the Tree of Life. We use this tree to measure the phylogenetic value of data typically used in paleontology (bones and teeth) from six data sets derived from
R. Asher, Martin R. Smith
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Long-Term Retention of Diverse Paleontologists Requires Increasing Accessibility
Geoscience encompasses a variety of scientific subdisciplines aimed at exploring, understanding, and predicting global phenomena. Yet despite its global reach, the geosciences are the least diverse of the STEM disciplines.
Aja Mia Carter +2 more
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Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 6: Geschichte des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin 1910–2004 [PDF]
Die Entwicklung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin von einer Institution, die Geologie zusammen mit Paläontologie als eine Einheit vertrat, über eine Institution, die eine geotektonische Ausrichtung hatte, zu ...
W. Gross, H.-P. Schultze
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Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 6: Geschichte des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin 1910–2004 [PDF]
Die Entwicklung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin von einer Institution, die Geologie zusammen mit Paläontologie als eine Einheit vertrat, über eine Institution, die eine geotektonische Ausrichtung hatte, zu ...
W. Gross, H.-P. Schultze
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Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the “Kem Kem beds”, are reviewed.
Nizar Ibrahim +9 more
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Automatic Recognition of Palaeobios Images Under Microscope Based on Machine Learning
The research of paleontology is an essential part of contemporary earth science. However, the time-consuming manual identification process has always been cumbrous in the field of paleontology.
Yuxuan Xu +4 more
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New scientific direction of the bacterial paleontology in Mongolia
We review the initial development of Bacterial Paleontology in Mongolia and present some electron microscopic images of fossil bacteria in different stages of preservation in sedimentary rocks.
Dorj Dorjnamjaa +2 more
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Editorial: Evolving Virtual and Computational Paleontology
During the last few decades, the development of new technologies and methods, and increases in computational power, are widening Paleontology’s research frontiers, moving this discipline—situated halfway between Biology and Geology—toward increasing use ...
L. Pandolfi +3 more
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