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  Radiocarbon dating

  Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon-14 to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to ca 60,000 years. Within archaeology it is ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Evolution
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  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct, potentially distinct species of the genus Homo and may be the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe. According to the "Recent Out ... > more
• Early Climate
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Global Warming
  Geology
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  Paleoclimatology

  Paleoclimatology is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of the earth. Glaciers are a widely employed instrument in paleoclimatology. The ice in glaciers has hardened ... > more
• Dinosaurs
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  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Evolution
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  Albertosaurus

  Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ... > more
• Early Mammals
  Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
   
  

  Mastodon

  Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of an extinct genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth. While mastodons were furry like woolly mammoths, ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
  Ice Ages
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  Temperature record of the past 1000 years

  The temperature record of the past 1000 years describes the reconstruction of temperature for the last 1000 years on the Northern Hemisphere. A reconstruction is needed because a reliable surface ... > more
• New Species
  Apes
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  Priapulida

  Priapulida are a phylum of marine worms with an extensible spiny proboscis. Priapulid fossils are known at least as far back as the Middle Cambrian. Their nearest relatives are probably Kinorhyncha ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Paleontology
  Archaeology
  Animals
  Apes
   

  Hadrosaurus

  Hadrosaurus is a hadrosaurid dinosaur genus. In 1858, a skeleton of a dinosaur from this genus was the first full dinosaur skeleton found in North America, and in 1868 it became the first ever ... > more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Origin of Life
  Cultures
   
  

  Homo erectus

  Homo erectus ("upright man") is a hominin species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans (with Homo heidelbergensis usually treated as an intermediary step). The species is found from ... > more
• Anthropology
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Evolution
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  Anthropology

  Anthropology is the study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Since the work of Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski in the ... > more

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