 Paleontology
"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.
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D010163
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.277.875 I01.076.368.584
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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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| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 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 | 3 | 5 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2015 | 5 | 7 | 12 | | 2016 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2019 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paleontology" by people in Profiles.
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Liu S, Kruse S, Scherler D, Ree RH, Zimmermann HH, Stoof-Leichsenring KR, Epp LS, Mischke S, Herzschuh U. 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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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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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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Huang JD, Motani R, Jiang DY, Ren XX, Tintori A, Rieppel O, Zhou M, Hu YC, Zhang R. 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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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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Stahlschmidt MC, Collin TC, Fernandes DM, Bar-Oz G, Belfer-Cohen A, Gao Z, Jakeli N, Matskevich Z, Meshveliani T, Pritchard JK, McDermott F, Pinhasi R. 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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Kopperud BT, Lidgard S, Liow LH. Text-mined fossil biodiversity dynamics using machine learning. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 04 24; 286(1901):20190022.
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Alemseged Z, Njau J, Pobiner B, Ndiema E. Connecting palaeoscientists in eastern Africa and the wider world. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 03; 3(3):330-331.
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Zanno LE, Tucker RT, Canoville A, Avrahami HM, Gates TA, Makovicky PJ. Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record. Commun Biol. 2019; 2:64.
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Miyashita T, Coates MI, Farrar R, Larson P, Manning PL, Wogelius RA, Edwards NP, Anné J, Bergmann U, Palmer AR, Currie PJ. Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological-molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 02 05; 116(6):2146-2151.
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