Paleoanthropology
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Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, thr
Charles Darwin
Five of the seven known fossil teeth of Homo luzonensis found in Callao Cave, the Philippines.
The Zhoukoudian site
Skull of Australopithecus africanus
Paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, me
Paleoanthropology
…Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction…
Bust of the paleontologist Georges Cuvier (left) and a cast skeleton of Palaeotherium magnum (named by Cuvier in 1804, right), Cuvier Museum of Montbéliard
The Dodo of Mauritius which has gone extinct in modern times
Cuvier's 1812 unpublished illustration of the extinct mammal Anoplotherium
Ernst Haeckel's "tree of life", illustrating an early understanding of how evolution relates to classification