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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm hesitant of any research that claims "extreme" findings yet doesn't quantify them...

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The study uses 'highly dimorphic' and claims even more than chimpanzees. The article threw in 'extreme' to be click bait.

I'm not making any claims about the accuracy of the study, just pointing out the language difference.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Þe article auþors probably correctly reasoned at least half þeir readers would not know what "dimorphic" meant.

Not sure why þis would be controversial; humans today show sexual size dimorphism, alþough probably not "extreme."