Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in or engaged in the study of fossil organisms.
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- noun A
biologist whose speciality ispaleobiology
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Examples
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"This is really gloom-and-doom stuff," says the study's lead author, paleobiologist Anthony Barnosky of the University of California at Berkeley.
Study foresees a rapid and widespread extinction of species 2011
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"Walk outside, look around and imagine three-fourths of all the different kinds of life you see gone," says Anthony Barnosky, a paleobiologist at Berkeley and lead author on the paper.
Study offers warning about next potential mass extinction 2011
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"This is really gloom-and-doom stuff," says the study's lead author, paleobiologist Anthony Barnosky of the University of California at Berkeley.
Study foresees a rapid and widespread extinction of species 2011
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However, paleobiologist Joel Pethica recently proposed that the turning point in hominid evolution came 3 million years ago when climate changes pushed our ancestors out of the trees and into the predator-infested savanna.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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However, paleobiologist Joel Pethica recently proposed that the turning point in hominid evolution came 3 million years ago when climate changes pushed our ancestors out of the trees and into the predator-infested savanna.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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However, paleobiologist Joel Pethica recently proposed that the turning point in hominid evolution came 3 million years ago when climate changes pushed our ancestors out of the trees and into the predator-infested savanna.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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While many scientists pin their hopes on Mars, UC Berkeley paleobiologist Jere Lipps yearns to probe Jupiter's moon Europa, because its jumbled ice cover reminds him of the Antarctic ice sheets that are home to abundant life on Earth.
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Don told the audience that he wants to be known as Dr. Prothero only when he is working as a professional geologist and vertebrate paleobiologist.
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I know of several preeminent women scientists such as Brown University vertebrate paleobiologist Christine Janis and Harvard University physicist Lisa Randall In the interest of full disclosure, her high school classmate was another future distinguished physicist, Brian Greene; both of whom I had overlapped with at our high school alma mater.
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As I once heard paleobiologist Donald R. Prothero describe it, we are badly constructed bipeds.
Jacob Dickerman: Journalists Present Acupuncture Placebo As Cure 2009
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