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What is paleontology?

What is paleontology? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.
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Conodonts have been known for almost as long as there has been paleontology, but their peculiar dentition was all that was known of the group.
Although paleontology plays a large role in the novel, Swanwick seems to be more concerned with cause-and-effect, paradoxes, and predeterminism.
Not only is phylogeny important for understanding paleontology, but paleontology in turn contributes to phylogeny.
It could become a much more attractive advertisement for paleontology and for the Society.
Over the last 25 years, few topics in systematics and paleontology have been as divisively debated as the origin of birds.
However, paleontology as a whole encompasses all life, from bacteria to whales.

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