paleobiology

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• Paleobiology unearths information about past changes over huge time scales.

  Academic text (2002)

• We called our study paleobiology and eventually founded a journal of the same name, intellectually vital (sometimes frenetically so) and even profitable since its initial year in 1975.

  Academic text (1992)

• You should have concluded already that I have a background in paleobiology, given some of my recent comments.

  Blog text (26)

• But eventually, Richard Benson, director of the museum's Department of Paleobiology, became interested in looking at alternatives.

  Academic text (2000)

• Richard Benson, head of the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, expects that an engineering perspective can lead to new insights into the structures of fossil animals, possibly adding to the understanding of how extinct animals once stood and moved.

  Academic text (2000)

• But behind the scenes, modern techniques have been catching on, and now the paleobiology department has enlisted a group of high-tech companies in an effort to save a deteriorating piece of the national heritage.

  Academic text (2000)

• Benson, Chapman, and Steve Jabo, a preparator in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian, went to Utah to meet two technology advocates who would be key players in the preservation effort.

  Academic text (2000)

• It is based on rigorously conducted scientific research that passes peer review and is then published in notable scientific journals like Nature, Science, Evolution, Genetics, Paleobiology, Ecology, American Naturalist, etc.

  Blog text (26)

• Noted ecologists like Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson have used differential equations to model fluctuations in taxonomic diversity in island biogeography, and their important insights have been extended to conservation biology and paleobiology.

  Blog text (26)

• As a prelude, the late Tom Schopf sponsored a symposium at the 1971 meeting of the Geological Society of America in Washington, D.C.—Models in Paleobiology (published as a book in 1972).

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

P

paleontology

vspaleobiology

• Specialized

13 7.5

The study of fossils and ancient animals and plants preserved in rocks

focuses on biological origins, development, and structure of fossil organisms

F

fossilology

vspaleobiology

• Specialized

9.6

The study of fossils to learn about ancient life and environments

concentrates on biological details of organism origin, development, and structure

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology