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Meanings of palaeontology in English

Portuguese
paleontologia
Catalan
paleontologia

The earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains.

paleontologia
Usage of palaeontology in English
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These are all things that have received research funding that aren't palaeontology.
The Guardian
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But such questions reflect a misunderstanding of what palaeontology is all about.
The Guardian
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The way of palaeontology has but just been laid open to us.
Critiques and Addresses
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Many museum visitors, young and old, assume that palaeontology is just dinosaurs.
The Guardian
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I study and interpret both the palaeontology and sedimentology of these rocks.
The South African
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Standard writers on palaeontology, as has been seen, assume that she can.
Discourses: Biological & Geological / Essays
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These examples are frivolous stories from my own field of palaeontology.
The Guardian
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As he had already noted, it has accounted for many people entering palaeontology.
The Guardian
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Michael Caldwell is a professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Alberta.
News.com.au
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Darwin's theory gave an entirely new significance and importance to palaeontology.
Darwin and Modern Science
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However, other perfectly respectable sciences suffer from similar problems, among them cosmology and palaeontology.
What does a martian look like?
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One is that palaeontology used to be a strictly western field, and quite anglophone.
The Guardian
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Is our story the most interesting story that palaeontology tells?
The Guardian
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And it's where he took me to get a sense of what palaeontology involves.
The Guardian
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A lot happened in the world of palaeontology in 2018.
The South African
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He is also professor of vertebrate palaeontology at Columbia University.
The new yorker
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Portuguese
paleontologia
Palaeontology through the time
Palaeontology across language varieties
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