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Definition of Human palaeontology

1. Noun. The scientific study of human fossils.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Human Palaeontology

Literary usage of Human palaeontology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Human Species by Armand Quatrefages de Bréau (1890)
"increase and extension of knowledge, we learn to appreciate better the wandering instincts of man. human palaeontology and prehistoric ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"human palaeontology. (2.) Prehistoric archaeology. (3.) Determination of human remains by archaeological data. Linguistic Anthropology. M. Hovelacque. ..."

3. The Plurality of the Human Race by Georges Pouchet (1864)
"human palaeontology itself has its own inconveniences. A bone or a skull of a man are things which are well known ; they have not that strange appearance in ..."

4. Annual Record of Science and Industry by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1872)
"... even geology must remain quite apart from archaeology and human palaeontology, because its work had come to an end when man had appeared on the earth. ..."

5. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"Consequently, an ideal long cherished by students of human palaeontology seems to approach the point of realisation.- The new discoveries present still ..."

6. The Plurality of the Human Race by Georges Pouchet, Hugh J. C. Beavan (1864)
"... of organic remains in a rock) or on negative evidence (the absence of organic remains in a rock). human palaeontology itself has its own inconveniences. ..."

7. Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology by Arthur Nicols (1880)
"Modern anthropology, which includes human palaeontology, maintains two leading propositions : first, the descent of man from a primitive creature who would ..."

8. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1865)
"If I am authorised to make any induction from what I saw with my eyes till now in human palaeontology, how many learned professors' dreams will vanish, ..."

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