We therefore organized this book in five parts so that the evidence could be placed in perspective and summarized and inferences made from it. Found inside – Page 147The " African Eve " Theory in Light of Paleontological Evidence for the Outward Diffusion of Hominids Brunetto Chiarelli University of Florence The Earliest Identifiable Hominid Ancestor The only fossil remains to be considered as those of the ... Ecologists sometimes term such environments 'Death Zones'. This book presents, however, a collection of remarkable adaptations to anoxia, observed in Eukaryotes such as protists, animals, plants and fungi. Found inside – Page 407Thus a contradiction arises between the paleontological and the physiographic evidence as to the history of the reef ; and this contradiction recalls a similar one concerning certain basin deposits in the western United States , known as the ... Found inside – Page 130... although it is only from the South Island that definite paleontological evidence established it to be of Permian age.' The actual sequence of rocks that should be included in the Maitai Series has been a debatable point amongst New Zealand ... Found inside – Page 71PALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR AGE OF ROCKS TODD and Low ( 1964 ) identified Foraminifera from limestones of haul CHN34D3 as Cenomanian . In consolidated siltstone of the same haul W. R. RIEDEL ( personal communication ... Found inside – Page 6For the first part of this task , the paleontological record can and does play an important role , but for the second part , the origin of the phyla , most of our information is based on biological evidence , derived from embryology and comparative ... Found inside – Page 140Judging from the physical data at hand , this mountain tarn may have beautified the landscape of the late Pliocene or any portion of the early Pleistocene epoch , —a conclusion which is in harmony with the paleontological evidence . * Ancient ... Found inside – Page 226III ) included a summary of the types of fossil anthropoids and fossilized human bones that African soil has contributed to the total paleontological evidence . To summarize the whole of the geological and paleontological testimony is beyond ... Found inside – Page 418fossil land snails ( Pseudolisinoe leidyi ) were only found in strongly calcareous paleosols which also had large root traces . These latter are evidence of trees , on which snail populations may have been somehow dependent . Snails were not ... Found inside – Page 139Mallory, during his fieldwork in 1949, and others of us later, found no evidence of this discordance or erosional surface, at least at the contact as exposed at the mouth of the Las Llajas Canyon. The fine-grained sandstone of the uppermost ... Found inside – Page 400In the few places where paleontological evidence was mentioned in this paper , it was used to separate Pleistocene from Miocene deposits when there was no other method by which this could be done . Except where specifically noted , the ... Found inside – Page 1200Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous . Nature 433 : 305-308 . Cooper , A. , and D. Penny . 1997. Mass survival of birds across the Cretaceous - Tertiary boundary : molecular evidence . Science 275 ... Found inside – Page 60The other type of evidence is paleontological . Excavated bones and fossils point to the steady progression of life forms from the simplest to the most complex , and the assertion is made that Evolution I explains this as well . However , even ... Found inside – Page 151If any paleontological evidence is to be brought to bear on the relationship of these units it will almost certainly have to come from the microfaunas or microfloras . It is interesting to compare the geographic distribution of these three units with ... Found inside – Page 153Certain paleontological evidence suggests that the Schoolcraft Member may be of the same age as the Lower Clinton of New York . As pointed out above , Pentamerus oblongus is the most characteristic fossil of the Schoolcraft . It is found in ... Found insideThis book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Found inside – Page 61Based on paleontological evidence, McKee et al. (1988) assigned the igneous units a stratigraphic order (inset Figure 3) and inferred that the arc was active from the mid-Pennsylvanian through the Permian with sedimentation occurring until ... Found inside – Page 30Archegosaurus is reconsidered, but not too successfully, since Tromatops was then unknown. In the discussion on the centrale complex, it is pointed out that there is no paleontological evidence of more than two centralia (except abnormally). Thus, this volume is totally unique, and takes a perspective that has never been taken before. Found inside – Page 47The alternative possibility of a closer relation between the Ocypodidae and Goneplacidae still exists. In this brief review of the evolution of the Brachyura a number of problems has been pointed out on which evidence either is insufficient ... Found inside – Page viiiPaleontological Index Entries in the paleontological index are grouped under eight main divisions: (l) diatoms; ... Ecological, environmental, and climatological information derived from paleontological evidence appears in the subject index. viii ... Found inside – Page 36... have been found ... along the east margin of the North Island ” . A decade later this statement still summarised the position ( Hornibrook in Fleming ( 1959 , p . 141 ) ) . This negative paleontological evidence was based primarily on sampling ... Found inside – Page 111Especially in the case of disconformities there might be no other than paleontological proof of their presence, and for this reason many extensive unconformities remain unrecognized. Distinct field evidence might be lacking especially in those ... Found inside – Page 157Some years ago while I was still in the Museum , a German paleontologist ( whose name I do not now remember with certainty ... of these faunas on geological grounds is weak and would not stand against decided paleontological evidence . This first volume covers the craniodental remains from Europe that have been attributed to the genus Homo. Here the authors also clearly define the terminology and descriptive protocol that is applied uniformly throughout the series. Found inside – Page 1No paleontological evidence has been found to reconcile the differing age interpretations , so conclusive resolution of this question is not yet possible . However , a careful examination of physical evidence provided by Dual Laterologs ... This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Found inside – Page 40No paleontological evidence was found that the Owl Creek Formation is present in New Madrid well 1 - X . The Owl Creek forms the top of the Cretaceous section in much of the northern Mississippi Embayment ( Sohl , 1960 ) and is probably ... Found inside – Page 20327 Cope ' s response to Weismann combined definitional , logical considerations , with observational evidence , and theoretical considerations . When Cope looked at the paleontological evidence he saw that organisms changed by gaining ... Found inside – Page 135studies based on unsubstantiated paleontological data can Gaffney , E. S. , D. D. A. Campos , and R. Hirayama . 2001. Cearachelys , be useful ... Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11 : ated by explicit evidence . 145-167 . 1996. Testudines . Found inside – Page 328Much of Darwin ' s evidence of the truth of organic evolution was paleontological evidence . ... Will the work of paleontologists become so scientifically exact that it can be employed wisely and efficiently enough to help during the post - war ... Found inside – Page 73This order is compatible with that reconstructed from the fossil record . The parasitological evidence is reviewed in Dunn ( 1966 ) . The serological and paleontological evidence suggest that a very early separation of the hominid lineage is ... Found inside – Page 14This model is borne out in nature and history , including vast fossil ( paleontological ) evidence . Biogenesis , the teaching that only life begets life , is an observable reality . Horses are still having horses , and chickens bear only their own ... Found inside – Page 37Sound evidence is available only for their up marly - limestones ( locally gritty ) and red and / or green per part . ... had been Valley ) are locally found . mentioned by Băncilă ( 1958 ) , Băncilă & Papiu ( 1962 Paleontological data and age . Found inside – Page 192... a consideration of the end - products of hominid evolution , as well as on the paleontological evidence so far available . For the paleontologist , also , the definition must be limited to those characters which are available for study in fossilized ... Found inside – Page 325The Nature of Paleontological Evidence.- Fossils , as even the brief account in this chapter will show , constitute some of the very best evidence regarding the fact of evolution . In this respect , paleontology differs from most other sources of ... Found inside – Page vEvolution of paleontologic and stratigraphic evidence, especially in relation to System and Era boundaries. Mathematics in Paleontology. The Paleontological Evidence For or Against the Relative Movements of Continental Blocks. Evidence ... Found inside – Page 33However , all paleontological evidence indicates the top of the Chinle Group is no younger than Late Triassic ( e . g . , Lucas and Hunt 1990a , 1992 ) . large ostracod ( Fig . 4 ) . However , the sampling of calcareous microfossils has been so ... Found inside – Page 547African Replacement Versus Multiregional Evolution: Archaeological and Paleontological Evidence David Prayer and colleagues (1993) use archaeological and paleontological data to argue against the African replacement model (Figure ... Found inside... Neontological and Paleontological Evidence by Michael P. Russell Abstract Integrating data from paleontological and ... the complimentary nature of paleontological and neontological data as applied to ecological and evolutionary studies . Found inside – Page 173The troubled paleontologist is commonly unacquainted with recently proposed theories of evolution and is confused by the fact that much of the paleontologic evidence originally arrayed to prove evolution is now rejected as invalid . Things ... Found inside – Page 325History of the vertebrate and land plants as revealed in the fossil record . The geologic and geographic distribution , and the relationships and descent of the better known groups will be discussed , together with the paleontological evidences ... Found inside – Page 1240isotopic studies , 651 Mediterranean during Messinian , 938 Mediterranean during Pliocene - Quaternary , 939 paleontological evidence , 1009 , 1021 palynological evidence , 792 , 1017 redox conditions , 652 redox potential , 637 , 641 , 649 ... Found insideMoreover , the lacking paleontological evidence has recently been furnished by the find of a fossil species of Kinosternon in Arizona , collected by Dr. J. W. 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