palaeontology

[ UK /pˌæliːəntˈɒləd‍ʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
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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.
  • This site contains astrobiology news and links about: astrochemistry, bioinformatics, biosatellites, gravitational biology, hydrothermal vent communities, genomics, astropaleobiology, radiation physiology, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, extremophiles, exopaleontology, cell biology, evolution, planetary protection, and space medicine.
  • 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.
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