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UK
/pˌæliːəntˈɒlədʒi/
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NOUN
- the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
How To Use palaeontology In A Sentence
- In practice, the book is a rambling history of discoveries, geology, astronomy, palaeontology, chaos theory and graphing techniques with more than a few unqualified generalisations.
- Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
- Not only is phylogeny important for understanding paleontology, but paleontology in turn contributes to phylogeny.
- Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.
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- There seems, then, no escape from the admission that neither physical geology, nor paleontology, possesses any method by which the absolute synchronism of two strata can be demonstrated. Essays
- Zoogeography integrates a variety of disciplines within ichthyology (ecology, physiology, systematics, paleontology, geology and biogeography) to explain patterns of fish distribution.
- Be an expert on mineralogy, geology, paleontology or anything-ology.
- He cofounded the Panama Paleontology Project in 1986, an international group of 30 scientists, to help support his isthmian research.
- Numerous recent studies in vertebrate paleontology have focused on reconstructing the ecology of terrestrial fossil communities.