palaeontology
Brazilian palaeontologists were angered by the sale of precious relics to tourists.
There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists.
Palaeontologists are confident that the jawbone fragments tell a much larger story.

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Palaeontology & fossils
ammonite
ammonoid
biozone
carbon dating
fossil
fossil record
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
index fossil
microfossil
missing link
palaeontology
petrifaction
petrify
radiocarbon dating
unfossiliferous

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palaeontologist
Every professional palaeontologist should know how the science evolved and what factors, social, economic, technological and pure chance, have shaped our understanding of evolution.
It is an appropriate contribution and many of the chapters will, through various reasons, provoke intense debate among vertebrate palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists.
All the following chapters are by vertebrate palaeontologists presenting, discussing and defending their approaches for assessing function in fossil vertebrates.
Although this volume will be of value to vertebrate palaeontologists, it suffers from several drawbacks.
At an astonishingly reasonable price every biologist and palaeontologist should regard this book as an essential acquisition.
Although many palaeontologists familiar with the field will find that several of the essays reprise arguments presented elsewhere, there is still something for everyone.
This is a landmark publication, and not only essential for the library of any (palaeo-) entomologist, but any broadly read palaeontologist.
As such, it firmly places palaeontologists into a position of some significance in the modern environmental debates.
And, as a systematic palaeontologist, it has to work for me, otherwise it fails.
As a palaeontologist he provides a great deal of valuable information on the fossils of the island, and also on reconstructing past environments.
For this reason, any palaeontologist, sedimentologist or petroleum geologist should be interested in this topic and know how to use ichnology.
But geologists or palaeontologists hoping to learn anything about molluscan biology or taphonomy will be either disappointed or misled.
Nobody gazes with awe and wonder at the palaeontologist who provides them with the age of the rocks they are studying.
The second book under review here is less likely to be of immediate interest to palaeontologists, although it is obviously an important contribution to neurobiology.
Already in the late seventies a few climate modellers accepted this challenge under the curious, mildly sceptical gaze of palaeontologists and geologists.
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