Meanings of palæontology in English

In the performance of its other tasks, however, palæontology must work independently.

Still my imagination carried me away amongst the wonderful speculations of palæontology.

But this creature surpassed in stature all the measurements known in modern palæontology.

Until this common sense view was adopted there was no science of palæontology.

Primary and direct evidence in favour of evolution can be furnished only by palæontology.

Does palæontology throw any light on the antiquity of man?

The word "palæontology" means literally the "science of living things of long ago."

It is true that palæontology gives direct testimony about the evolutionary succession of animals in geologic time.

The white-haired professor of palæontology nodded sleepily.

In doing these things palæontology employs the methods of comparative anatomy with which we have now become familiar.

He thought it likely that the successive faunas which palæontology discloses have originated from one another by descent.

So far as I know, however, they have not hitherto been closely examined with respect to vegetable palæontology.

The third division of our evidence relating to mental evolution constitutes what we have called the palæontology of mind.

It is wonderful how close a parallel to classical training could be made out of that palæontology to which I refer.

Place side by side all possible genealogical trees of the animal kingdom, whether founded on comparative anatomy, embryology, palæontology, or all combined.

They live now almost exclusively on the island of Madagascar, but palæontology shows that they were more widely spread at an earlier time.