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Перевод: paleontology

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палеонтология

Тезаурус:

1. The Geological Society Publishing House, Unit 7 Brassmill Enterprise Centre, , is the European distributor for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the following series published by the Geological Society of America : Decade of North American Geology Suite; Memoirs; Reviews in Engineering Geology; Special Papers; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
2. Only in the last decades of the century was morphology replaced by paleontology as the chief focus of attention in the reconstruction of what the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel called "phylogeny" (evolutionary history).
3. With hindsight we can see how the paleontology of the 1840s and 1850s paved the way for the reception of Darwin's theory when the Origin of Species was published late in 1859.
4. Vertebrate paleontology finally became an organized science in the early years of the nineteenth century, owing to the anatomical skills of Georges Cuvier.
5. Henry Fairfield Osborn, the influential Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, coined the term "adaptive radiation" to denote the episodes of expansion, and insisted on the orthogenetic character of evolution within each specialized group when once established.
6. But the same kind of eclipse did not affect that other great area devoted to reconstructing the history of life: paleontology.
7. But the early debates were conducted almost entirely in terms of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
8. The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration.
9. His papers on the topic, subsequently collected as the Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles of 1812, provided a starting point for the science of vertebrate paleontology.
10. Because the nests are in such orderly rows, scientists at the Museum of Paleontology at Drumheller, Alberta, believe that the same species of dinosaur returned to the site to give birth each year for many hundreds of years.
11. Fossils were now being collected in ever-greater numbers and from an ever-wider area of the earth's surface, and it was inevitable that paleontology would be used to throw light on the course of evolution.
12. Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension, and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale.
13. Recently Michel Laurin, a young graduate student in paleontology at the University of Toronto, announced that the lizard-like Tetraceratops was an ancient relative of mammals.