 Fossils
"Fossils" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Remains, impressions, or traces of animals or plants of past geological times which have been preserved in the earth's crust.
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D005580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368.584.311
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fossils" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fossils" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1998 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2001 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2002 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2003 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2005 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2006 | 17 | 3 | 20 | | 2007 | 7 | 9 | 16 | | 2008 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2009 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2011 | 11 | 3 | 14 | | 2012 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2013 | 12 | 11 | 23 | | 2014 | 12 | 9 | 21 | | 2015 | 16 | 8 | 24 | | 2016 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2017 | 8 | 5 | 13 | | 2018 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 2019 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Negash EW, Alemseged Z, Bobe R, Grine F, Sponheimer M, Wynn JG. Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 08; 117(36):21921-21927.
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Wynn JG, Alemseged Z, Bobe R, Grine FE, Negash EW, Sponheimer M. Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 08; 117(36):21978-21984.
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Alemseged Z, Wynn JG, Geraads D, Reed D, Andrew Barr W, Bobe R, McPherron SP, Deino A, Alene M, J Sier M, Roman D, Mohan J. Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nat Commun. 2020 05 19; 11(1):2480.
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McCoy VE, Wiemann J, Lamsdell JC, Whalen CD, Lidgard S, Mayer P, Petermann H, Briggs DEG. Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois. Geobiology. 2020 09; 18(5):560-565.
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Stewart TA, Lemberg JB, Taft NK, Yoo I, Daeschler EB, Shubin NH. Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 01 21; 117(3):1612-1620.
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Nelsen MP, Lücking R, Boyce CK, Lumbsch HT, Ree RH. No support for the emergence of lichens prior to the evolution of vascular plants. Geobiology. 2020 01; 18(1):3-13.
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Jones KE, Angielczyk KD, Pierce SE. Stepwise shifts underlie evolutionary trends in morphological complexity of the mammalian vertebral column. Nat Commun. 2019 11 07; 10(1):5071.
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Frey L, Coates M, Ginter M, Hairapetian V, Rücklin M, Jerjen I, Klug C. The early elasmobranch Phoebodus: phylogenetic relationships, ecomorphology and a new time-scale for shark evolution. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 10 09; 286(1912):20191336.
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Nalley TK, Scott JE, Ward CV, Alemseged Z. Comparative morphology and ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in great apes, humans, and fossil hominins. J Hum Evol. 2019 09; 134:102632.
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Presslee S, Slater GJ, Pujos F, Forasiepi AM, Fischer R, Molloy K, Mackie M, Olsen JV, Kramarz A, Taglioretti M, Scaglia F, Lezcano M, Lanata JL, Southon J, Feranec R, Bloch J, Hajduk A, Martin FM, Salas Gismondi R, Reguero M, de Muizon C, Greenwood A, Chait BT, Penkman K, Collins M, MacPhee RDE. Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 07; 3(7):1121-1130.
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