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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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, 1988 Paleontology is a multi-faceted subject that involves taxonomy and community analysis as two of its cornerstones. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches have been incorporated into the various methods employed in such analyses.
Jones, Brian
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen +7 more
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Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in BiologyStudies of the history of life provide an interesting case study of how the questions scientists can ask, and from which they expect reliable answers, change over time.
Douglas Erwin
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2012 A formação e o estudo de coleções de história natural e de paleontologia participaram da instauração da ordem política do Império do Brasil, delineando também uma ordem científica. A simbiose entre ciência e nação encontrou em Peter W.
Paulo Henrique Martinez
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Laser-stimulated fluorescence in paleontology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Fluorescence using ultraviolet (UV) light has seen increased use as a tool in paleontology over the last decade. Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) is a next generation technique that is emerging as a way to fluoresce paleontological specimens that ...
Thomas G Kaye +8 more
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PALEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY [PDF]
Evolution, 1974 In the introduction to the recently published collection Models in Paleobiology, Schopf (1972, p. 4) says, "We look with awe at the results which have followed the application of fundamental chemistry in a geochemical context, and the use of cartesian methodology in molecular biology.
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Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming [PDF]
, 2012 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89881/1/Papers On Paleontology 36 02-15-2012 ...
Rose, Kenneth D. +5 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman +4 more
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VirtualPal: a remote undergraduate invertebrate paleontology practical course using 3D fossils
BSGF - Earth Sciences BulletinPaleontology is a natural science discipline based on the observation of fossils. Therefore, paleontology education requires extensive training, and thus significant time, dedicated to observing and describing fossils.
Suchéras-Marx Baptiste +5 more
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