Concept information
Preferred term
paleontology
Definition
- Paleontology (from Greek: palaeo, “old, ancient”; on, “being”; and logos, “speech, thought”) is the study of ancient life. Life appeared on Earth about 3,550 million years ago in the oceans, subsequently evolved from simple bacteria-like cells to complex multicellular forms, and colonized the land. [Source: Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture; Paleontology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Ales Hrdlicka
- Atapuerca
- australopithecines
- Carleton S. Coon
- Davidson Black
- Donald C. Johanson
- dryopithecus
- Eugene Dubois
- Fa Hien cave
- F. Clark Howell
- fossil apes
- fossil record
- fossils
- Franz Weidenrich
- gigantopithecus
- graves
- hominid taxonomy
- hominoids
- Homo antecessor
- homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- homo habilis
- homo sapiens
- human evolution
- human paleontology
- humans and dinosaurs
- Ian Tattersall
- issues in hominization
- Java man
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
- J. R. Napier
- kennewick man
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Kenyapithecus wickeri
- lazaret cave
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Louis S. B. Leakey
- lucy reconstruction models
- Mary D. Leakey
- Meave Epps Leakey
- Meganthropus
- mummies
- mungo lady/man
- Neandertal burials
- neandertal evidence
- Neandertals
- neandertal sites
- Olduvai Gorge
- Oreopithecus
- paleoanthropology
- paleodontology
- paleoecology
- paleopathology
- palynology
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Raymond A. Dart
- Richard E. F. Leakey
- sahelanthropus tchadensis
- shanidar cave
- Siwalik Hills
- taphonomy
- Xenophanes
- zafarraya cave
- zinjanthropus boisei
- zooarchaeology
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/paleontology
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