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A branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms
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paleobiology
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Paleobiology is a scientific journal promoting the integration of biology and conventional paleontology , with emphasis placed on biological or paleobiological processes and patterns. It attracts papers of interest to more than one discipline, and occasionally ...
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alt. The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals n. The branch of biology or paleontology concerned with the study of fossils of plants and animals
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n. a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms [syn: palaeobiology ]
Usage examples of paleobiology.
He has studied at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, the University of Paris VI, and the Paleobiology Institute of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw.
From virology to genetics and primate paleobiology, each of the specialties had its own esprit de corps, its own labs, its own pursuits.
At this rate, she would find herself doing more and more public relations until by incremental degrees she was squeezed out of real paleobiology entirely.
There were precisely three really good jobs for dinosaur specialists in Canada: Chief of the Paleobiology Division at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Curator of Paleobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta.
Then, too, I had long dreamed of studying paleobiology, and here was an opportunity to delve rather deeply into the realms of mammoths and dinosaurs.