palaeoanthropology
/ˌpalɪəʊanθrəˈpɒlədʒi
/ /ˌpeɪlɪəʊanθrəˈpɒlədʒi/(US paleoanthropology)
noun
The branch of anthropology concerned with fossil hominids.The announcement electrified the paleoanthropology community....
- The pattern of population size change across the Pleistocene has come to be of critical interest, linking paleodemography with population genetics, paleoecology, and paleoanthropology.
- Contributors include accomplished specialists in geology, paleontology, and paleoanthropology.
Derivatives
palaeoanthropological
- The most notable paleoanthropological find in the country was ‘Lucy,’ a female Australopithicus afarensis discovered in 1974 and referred to as Dinqnesh by Ethiopians.
- The Turkana Basin is famous for its paleontological, paleoanthropological, and archeological records from both east and west of this large lake in the eastern part of the rift system.
- Threaded through this vivid story of fieldwork, paleoanthropological politics, and on-the-spot war reportage is Kalb's nervy struggle simply to stay in the game.
palaeoanthropologist
- Thus, this monograph is a welcome publication for those who work on the later Neogene, and for paleoanthropologists interested in the ecological context of basal hominids.
- This will be a must for any paleoanthropologist or paleontologist working on fossil primates.
- I believe most of these contradictory problems are caused by paleoanthropologists insisting on calling all the australopithecines ‘hominids,’ rather than hominoids.