Crossword clues for paleobiology
Wiktionary
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
WordNet
n. a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms [syn: palaeobiology]
Wikipedia
Paleobiology (sometimes spelled palaeobiology) is a growing and comparatively new discipline which combines the methods and findings of the natural science biology with the methods and findings of the earth science paleontology. It is occasionally referred to as " geobiology".
Paleobiological research uses biological field research of current biota and of fossils millions of years old to answer questions about the molecular evolution and the evolutionary history of life. In this scientific quest, macrofossils, microfossils and trace fossils are typically analyzed. However, the 21st-century biochemical analysis of DNA and RNA samples offers much promise, as does the biometric construction of phylogenetic trees.
An investigator in this field is known as a paleobiologist.
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 publishes research on recent organisms when this is of interest to paleontologists.
Category:Paleontology journals Category:Academic journals published by learned and professional societies
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.