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Online Vs Physical Books
Are online books as good as physical books in terms of reading?
Reading on paper (physical books) is slightly better than online, but it comes down to personal preferences. In most cases, students have a choice.
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Paleontology
National Geographic defines paleontology as “the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils.”
This means the remains of everything from single-celled living ...
Paleontology encompasses many subdisciplines
These include:
- the study of microscopic fossils (micropaleontology)
- the study of fossil plants (paleobotany)
- the study of pollen and spores produced by land plants and protists (palynology)
- the study of invertebrate animal fossils (invertebrate paleontology)
- the study of prehistoric human and proto-human fossils (human paleontology)
- the study of the processes of decay, preservation and the formation on fossils (taphonomy)
- the study of fossil tracks, trails and footprints (ichnology)
- and the study of the ecology and climate of the past (paleoecology).
Paleontology is a scientific necessity
Paleontology is the study of the history of life. Because that history is written in the fossil and geological record, paleontology allows us to place living organisms in both evolutionary (life-historical) and geological (earth-historical) context.
It is this contextual background that allows us to interpret the significance of characteristics of living organisms, and the significance of biological events occurring today.
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