WordNet
human paleontology
n. the scientific study of human fossils [syn: paleoanthropology, palaeoanthropology, human palaeontology]
Usage examples of "human paleontology".
This is what Geoffrey Wrightwood meant when he said at the Seventh International Symposium on Human Paleontology in Geneva in 1972: All I need is one skull, or a fragment of a skull, or a bit of jaw.