Meaning of paleo in English

Examples of paleo

paleo
If 2014 was the year of the paleo diet, what diets are we likely to hear about this year?
Some of my anthropologist colleagues refer to this pining for a pristine past as a paleo-fantasy.
From NPR
The one illustration that will raise a lot of eyebrows in the paleo community at least, is featured above.
Look on chat boards devoted to the protein-rich paleo diet, and you'll find debates on the nutritional benefits of caribou eyes.
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To address these questions, the field of paleo-epigenetics needs to find a way to robustly apply bisulfite sequencing methods on a population-scale.
There is further abundant paleo evidence/studies that the area has been devastated many times going back hundreds of years.
From CNN
Using this database, the scientists determined the flow pattern for the past 9,000 years -- in effect creating a "paleo-velocity" map.
From Phys.Org
I could argue that the more genuine "paleo" diet was vegetarian.
From NPR
Some of them, in fact, take a paleo-lifestyle to startling lengths.
From NPR
But the paleo-movement seems to doom (even if unintentionally) more animals to life and death in factory farms.
From NPR
Paleo understandings in diet and life style is now becoming mainstream and only from this will our soils be replenished.
From TIME
Of course paleo diet devotees will not have to worry as grains and bread are banned from their vocabulary -- and mouths.
These nuggets could easily come from a paleo lifestyle blog, the kind that argues our modern diet and way of life are making us sick.
From NPR
It's a connection that paleo-diet gurus have embraced, too.
From NPR
Are paleo diets, which usually involve eating lots of meat and avoiding grains or dairy, examples of this type of specific selection?
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Translations of paleo

in Chinese (Traditional)
古人類的, 古,原始,早期,史前…
in Chinese (Simplified)
古人类的, 古,原始,早期,史前…
in Portuguese
paleolítico, ortografia americana de “palaeo-”:, paleo-…
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