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Paleontology   Listen
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Paleontology  n.  The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.






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"Paleontology" Quotes from Famous Books



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— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... work by dividing. Every day, before our eyes, the highest forms of life are springing from a very elementary form. Experience, then, shows that the most complex has been able to issue from the most simple by way of evolution. Now, has it arisen so, as a matter of fact? Paleontology, in spite of the insufficiency of its evidence, invites us to believe it has; for, where it makes out the order of succession of species with any precision, this order is just what considerations drawn from embryogeny and comparative anatomy would lead any one to ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... however, were of general and even popular interest, there were on the program 36, distributed somewhat unequally among the sections into which the academy is divided as follows: Mathematics, 0; Astronomy, 3; Physics and Engineering, 7; Chemistry, 1; Geology and Paleontology, 6; Botany, 7; Zoology and Animal Morphology, 8; Physiology and Pathology, 4; Anthropology and Psychology, 0. A program covering all the sciences belongs in a sense to the eighteenth rather than to the twentieth ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... an inquiry, in fact, into the nature and value of the present results of paleontological investigation; and the more so, as all those who have paid close attention to the late multitudinous discussions in which paleontology is implicated, must have felt the urgent necessity of some ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... and Lazear; men who devoted (in latter instance, sacrificed life) their lives to service for humanity. In the life and work of Charles Darwin we find a splendid example of painstaking search for the truth. The records of the rocks, (Paleontology, the nature-written history of biology) will often come to the rescue of the teacher in clearing up the presentation of the difficult problems of evolution. The historic attitude must be "put over" to the pupil too, for he must know his world as the result of ...
— Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools • James Daley McDonald



Words linked to "Paleontology" :   vertebrate paleontology, palaeobiology, paleobiology, earth science, frill, palaeontology, paleontologist



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