Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The branch of archeology that studies fossil organisms and related remains.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
paleontology .
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- noun the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
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Examples
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Some say that the people involved in palaeontology are all a bit mad.
Christmas cards Darren Naish 2006
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"Without cladistics, palaeontology is no more of a science than the one that proclaimed that Earth was 6,000 years old and flat – and then had the effrontery to claim divine sanction for this view."
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Some say that the people involved in palaeontology are all a bit mad.
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That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell, or a bone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged in speculations upon the nature of this thing which he had dug out -- this "fossil" -- and upon the causes which had brought it into such a position.
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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A specialised use of Latin is in the nomenclature of botany, zoology and palaeontology, which is still cast in a conventional Latinised form.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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The papers will appear in print later this year in a special volume entitled "Recent advances in Chinese palaeontology."
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Though a man be well versed in a science such as palaeontology it does not follow that he will view it in its philosophical relations.
Born in Exile George Gissing 1880
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My subject at Uni was palaeontology, I can tell you from fossil records the biggest extinction in the record overheating of the Earth was a major factor.
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On a personal level, 2009 was an impacted fecal sample of a year, but for palaeontology ...
2009 in Dinosaur Paleontology (better late than never). greygirlbeast 2010
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On a personal level, 2009 was an impacted fecal sample of a year, but for palaeontology ...
2009 in Dinosaur Paleontology (better late than never). greygirlbeast 2010
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