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Team of geologists collecting samples for paleomagnetic analysis at Sangiran, Java.
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 Anatomists disagreed on the importance of the Piltdown Man.
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 The paleoanthropologist must understand these deformations in order to figure out which strata a fos
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 Rock layers (strata) usually look like layers in a cake such as these strata at Olduvai Gorge Tanzan
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Climate has cooled substantially during primate evolution.
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 Habitat reconstruction is possible based on the kinds of plants present at past sites.
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 The oxygen isotope curve illustrates the ratio between 16O and 18O.
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 The continents were not always in their present positions. The position of the continents is importa
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(a) Uranium series dating uses the decay chain of radioactive uranium to stable lead.
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 The argon-argon method is useful for dating volcanic sediments.
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 Isotopes may be stable or radioactive depending on the arrangement and number of neutrons in the nuc
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 Comparison of Chronometric Techniques
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(a) The relative age ranges of different dating techniques depend upon the half-life of the system u
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 The geomagnetic polarity time scale shows how Earth’s magnetic pole has changed through geologic tim
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 Earth’s history spans 4.5 billion years. Geologists and paleontologists have pieced together the his
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 Earth’s history is divided into nested sets of time--eons, eras, periods, and epochs--and is called
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The principle of faunal succession uses animal fossils to tell relative time.
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 Layers are deposited parallel to Earth’s surface. Younger layers are deposited on top of older layer
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 Fossils are formed after an animal dies, decomposes, and is covered in sediment. Minerals in ground
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 Richard Wrangham’s “female-bonded” theory of intergroup competition was highly influential in our un
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