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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Actualistic"”.
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An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene
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Quantitative Ecological and Taphonomic Patterns in Late Cenozoic Mollusk-Dominated Marine Fossil Assemblages
… limited to working solely on fossil data. Actualistic paleontology is the study of modern or recent organisms and processes to better understand those of the past. The bulk of this body of research falls under the category of actualistic paleontology, and examines geochronological methods …
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Quantitative Studies of Late Neogene Coastal Environments Using Bivalve Subfossil and Fossil Assemblages
… to compare fossil deposits, a method called actualistic paleontology. Over recent years, such actuopaleontological approaches have been used increasingly to exploit distinct signatures of fossil deposits in environmental reconstructions, quantify effects of anthropogenic processes on …
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The influence of developmental patterns on vertebrate evolution, with the evolution of the sacrum and pelvis as a case study
… the integration of both the fossil record (actualistic observations of changes in morphology through Earth history) and observations of extant clades (comparative patterns of pre- and postnatal development) is required to study the evolution of form across deep time. The pelvic complex plays …
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Contributions to late Ediacaran geobiology in South China and southern Namibia
… enigmatic phylogenetic affinities, non-actualistic atmospheric and oceanic conditions, and unusual taphonomic windows, making it difficult to assign order to the myriad types of fossils (both body and trace) found during this time . It is with these problems in mind that my dissertation …
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Carnivore Modification in North America: Perspectives on Neotaphonomy, Carnivore Use of Carrion, and Great Plains Bison Bonbeds
… The third objective was reached by carrying out actualistic studies on different carnivore taxa, which are here shown to behave differently while feeding on large-mammal body parts. Captive North American wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, grizzly bears, and black bears were fed defleshed …
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An Evaluation of Geophysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials During the First Six Months of Burials
Geophysical survey has become a major tool in the search for clandestine graves associated with missing person cases. However, relatively little research has been done to evaluate the efficacy of different instruments. Ground-penetrating Radar (GPR), magnetometry, resistivity, conductivity, and …