Paleoekoloji ve tafonominin paleoantropolojik çalışmalardaki önemi ve Çandır örneği
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2007
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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Paleoecology define the living habits of fosil organisms, the interactions of group organisms, and the relationships between sediments and animals or plants. Past ecosystems are interpreted by comparison with present-day ones, but it must be recognized at the outset that past ecosystems do not necessarily have present-day counter-parts. Paleoecology is study in many ways the same as study of ecology, but it uses very different sources of information. Aims of paleoecology is to document climatic change over time and in order to reconstruct the paleoenvironment of a specific fossil locality to link evolutionary change to climatic change. The fossil deposit settings has a profound influence on a community?s condition of preservation. For these reasons, a paleoecological reconstruction must take into account the effects of all the various preservation factors. Taphonomic eleminating process or bias first involves location of the organism. Information from studying fossils in geological context may reveal the ways in which humans and other organisms were interrelated parts of an evolving system. Taphonomy researches the study of mortality, decay, disarticulation, transport, burial, time-averaging of fossil assemblages, depositional environments of fossil preservation, diagenesis and completeness of the fossil record. Taphonomy has become sufficient to begin predicting the utility of the fossil record in ecological and evolutionary studies. Paleoecology and taphonomy provides the conditions and factors that affects the human evolution and also brings out the ancient form's relation with the environment. Therefore, these two sister disciplines are being used in paleoanthropological studies.
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Paleoekoloji, tafonomi, paleoantropolojik