What's the difference between anthropology and paleontology?

Anthropology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
  • (n.) The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
  • (n.) That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
  • (2) The present paper provides a cross-cultural perspective on these problems through description of anthropological and clinical data for a sample (N = 14) of subjects suffering from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
  • (3) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
  • (4) Results are analyzed with regard to current theories in cognitive psychology and anthropology.
  • (5) Although there have been studies of both Dutch colonial policy in the Indies and the development of anthropology in the Netherlands, there has been no systematic examination of the historical relations between them.
  • (6) This review evaluates anatomical, anthropological, and radiographic cephalometric data of the growing nasomaxillary complex, with special regard to their reliability and value for therapy planning.
  • (7) On the basis of findings published in the literature, morphologic changes seen among the author's patients were classified as anthropologic and teratologic dislocations.
  • (8) This paper discusses also the psychological, therapeutic and anthropological implications of recent discoveries in the field.
  • (9) The presence of common Caucasian anthropological features of genetic value in the patients and the lack of Indian mixture in three of the involved families, documented back to 1600, suggest a Caucasian origin of the mutation.
  • (10) A sample of 10 test ribs including 2 control specimens, was judged by 28 volunteers representing several levels of education and experience in the forensic and anthropological sciences.
  • (11) Remarkable differences between the two populations, whose cultural and anthropological differences are well established, were observed.
  • (12) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
  • (13) The anthropological structure of this residence, is characterised by a polar buffer between openess and privacy.
  • (14) The contributions of Physical Anthropology to each is discussed.
  • (15) On the background of this anthropologic situation addiction is understood as internalized foreign determination sustaining a common though antiquated scheme of psychic and social conflict conditioned by outdated patterns of education and socialisation.
  • (16) Concepts from medical anthropology and medical sociology are related to five components of health seeking -- symptom definition, illness-related shifts in role behavior, lay consultation and referral, treatment actions, and adherence.
  • (17) We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering Read more In this new conceptual and political space a term whose use was previously restricted mainly to academic anthropology departments has emerged: “the commons” – that realm of community self-organisation that is mediated neither by the market nor the state.
  • (18) These two males and the environment in which they live are contrasted with the anthropological literature published decades ago describing the unique Indian tribal role played by feminized males.
  • (19) Four methods are (a) examining past research, (b) examining cross-cultural research, (c) asking anthropological questions, and (d) using inductive research techniques to reexamine the problem.
  • (20) Weighing of the issues is therefore possible only on the basis of expert grounding in the latest discoveries in each particular field, and in such cases also on the foundation of anthropological knowledge and awareness of ethical principles ("nil nocere").

Paleontology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The molecular-biological, bioenergetic, and paleontological aspects of this new concept of cellular evolution are discussed.
  • (2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
  • (3) A comparison of these coefficients with paleontological age of the group allows to conclude that evolutionary progress of animals was accompanied by the increase in skewness, variation and excess of specific lifespan distribution.
  • (4) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
  • (5) The technique described should prove useful in otopathological studies of other paleontological specimens.
  • (6) If the number of fixations of nucleotide codon substitutions per position of cistrons encoding cytochromes c are phyletically inferred (phylogeny based on a paleontological record) rather than phenetically inferred (based on paired comparisons of extant species' differences in the absence of a phylogeny) the distribution of these fixation data cannot be described adequately by a single Poisson distribution.
  • (7) David Attenborough: 'The area is one about which Britain can be very proud because it is the birthplace of paleontology.'
  • (8) By resolving several equivocal craniofacial morphocline polarities, these discoveries lay the foundation for a revised interpretation of the ancestral cranial morphology of Catarrhini more consistent with neontological and existing paleontological evidence.
  • (9) Thus, the immunological assay may prove useful to solve problems relevant to paleontology and paleopathology.
  • (10) The subjects of his correspondence are problems of the scientific investigations' organization as well as of true science, predominantly of paleontology and general morphology including the comparative anatomy.
  • (11) It was concluded from chromosomal and paleontological evidence that the two subspecies were derived from a common mainland ancestor and that the Japanese raccoon dogs is a relatively recent form.
  • (12) Recent paleontological collections at the middle Miocene locality of Maboko Island in Kenya, dated at 15-16 million years, have yielded numerous new specimens belonging to at least five species of fossil anthropoids.
  • (13) On the basis of morfological analysis of ecological, paleontological and zoogeographical data the main evolutionary trends to biting midges are established, the description of the hypothetical ancestor of the family is given and the apomorphy and plesiomorphy of the genera are analysed.
  • (14) glabrata (Say, 1818) from upper Pleistocene (or Holocene) based on paleontologic and stratigraphic data and in agreement with shell morphology.
  • (15) The results demonstrated that the -logRIP values of antisera against G6PDs from various test species neatly correlate with paleontologically estimated divergence times between rat and the test species.
  • (16) If the earlier paleontological interpretations are valid, then protein and mtDNA evolution must be somewhat decelerated in birds.
  • (17) This study opens for discussion some accepted interpretations related to posture, in human paleontology.
  • (18) Since opal phytoliths represent the inorganic remains of once-living plant cells, their documentation on the teeth of Gigantopithecus introduces a promising technique for the determination of diet in extinct mammalian species which should find numerous applications in the field of paleoanthropology as well as vertebrate paleontology.
  • (19) Therefore, early hominid adaptive scenarios based on a derived Homo-like manual functional morphology in A. robustus remain without a secure paleontological basis.
  • (20) An advantage of the present analysis is that it can be done without knowledge of paleontological divergence times and can be extended to bacterial proteins such as bacterial c-type cytochromes.