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Paleontology

The study of early forms of life through fossil remains.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2015
Review
2015
Grene and Hull on types and typological thinking in biology.
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
The Human Lineage
Preface. Chapter 1 The Fossil Record. Changing Ideas about the Changing Earth. Neptune vs. Vulcan. A Brief Guide to Sedimentology… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
On the use of species-area curves to detect the effects of sample size
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Amphicticeps and Amphicynodon (Arctoidea, Carnivora) from Hsanda Gol Formation, Central Mongolia and Phylogeny of Basal Arctoids with Comments on Zoogeography
Abstract Amphicticeps shackelfordi and Amphicynodon teilhardi are two small carnivorans from the early Oligocene Hsanda Gol… 
2005
2005
Age and Correlation of Fossiliferous Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Strata of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China
Abstract The Asian continent preserves a rich and diverse record of Paleogene mammal faunas and their evolution through time. The… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Towards understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: Hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data*
Although systematic treatments of Hydrozoa have been notoriously difficult, a great deal of useful information on morphologies… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A New Look at Evolutionary Rates in Deep Time: Uniting Paleontology and High-Precision Geochronology
It is now possible to routinely determine the age of 200–600-m.y.-old volcanic rocks interlayered with fossilbearing deposits to… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Doctorate recipients from united states universities: summary report 1998
Doctorates by Race/Ethnicity Following the new Federal standards established for the 2000 decennial census of the U.S. population… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Structure of the insect head in ontogeny and phylogeny: a view from Drosophila.
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Paleobiology of a Precambrian Shale
Investigations have been made of crude oil, pristane, phytane, steranetype and optically active alkanes, porphyrins, microfossils… 
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