"Paleontology" 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.
The study of early forms of life through fossil remains.
| Descriptor ID |
D010163
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.277.875 I01.076.368.584
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Paleontology".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Paleontology".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Paleontology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Paleontology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1994 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paleontology" by people in Profiles.
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Living fast in the Triassic: New data on life history in Lystrosaurus (Therapsida: Dicynodontia) from northeastern Pangea. PLoS One. 2021; 16(11):e0259369.
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Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals a threat of warming-induced alpine habitat loss to Tibetan Plateau plant diversity. Nat Commun. 2021 05 20; 12(1):2995.
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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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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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Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition. Sci Rep. 2020 05 08; 10(1):7798.
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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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Ancient Mammalian and Plant DNA from Late Quaternary Stalagmite Layers at Solkota Cave, Georgia. Sci Rep. 2019 04 29; 9(1):6628.
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Text-mined fossil biodiversity dynamics using machine learning. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 04 24; 286(1901):20190022.
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Connecting palaeoscientists in eastern Africa and the wider world. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 03; 3(3):330-331.
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Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record. Commun Biol. 2019; 2:64.