"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paleontology" by people in Profiles.
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Special Section: A Well-Preserved 2000-Year-Old Chinese Cadaver. Biopreserv Biobank. 2019 Apr; 17(2):93-94.
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The fight for control over virtual fossils. Nature. 2019 03; 567(7746):20-23.
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Porcupine gnaw marks on a Late Pliocene bone from the Upper Siwaliks exposed near Village Khetpurali (Haryana, India). An Acad Bras Cienc. 2019 Feb 14; 91(1):e20170910.
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Nature's 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2018. Nature. 2018 12; 564(7736):325-335.
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Mining threatens Chinese fossil site that revealed planet's earliest animals. Nature. 2017 04 20; 544(7651):403.
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Dental pulp as a source of low-contaminated DNA. Microb Pathog. 2017 Apr; 105:63-67.
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Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species. Nature. 2015 Sep 17; 525(7569):297-8.
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Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 26; 107(43):18360-5.