Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393938661
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To discuss: The main components of the palaeontology where it which the components contribute for understand the biological evolution.

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The progression of life on earth is happened on geologic period, where the first single celled organism came into existence about four billion years ago and the first multicellular creatures appeared around one billion years ago. The evolution of the primate order is most recent which occurred in the last fifty million years ago and evolution of humans is from past seven million years ago.

The physical indication of the evolutionary process constitutes the fossil record. The advancement of concurrent dating technology have the capability to rebuild ancient environments, which have maximised palaeontologists and anthropologists to understand the timings of evolutionary events.

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The palaeontology focuses on the evolutionary relationships where it studies the pedigrees and morphological progression of the multiple life systems. The palaeontology studies the vanished life form through fossil analysis. The main components which lies the foundation to the paleontological studies are from concepts of biology and geology.

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