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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paleoanthropology mean?
• PALEOANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
The noun PALEOANTHROPOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the scientific study of human fossils
Familiarity information: PALEOANTHROPOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The scientific study of human fossils
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
human palaeontology; human paleontology; palaeoanthropology; paleoanthropology
Hypernyms ("paleoanthropology" is a kind of...):
vertebrate paleontology (the paleontology of vertebrates)
Derivation:
paleoanthropological (of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils)
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