Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paleontology> ?p ?o }
- Paleontology abstract "Paleontology or palaeontology (/ˌpeɪlɪɒnˈtɒlədʒi/, /ˌpeɪlɪənˈtɒlədʒi/ or /ˌpælɪɒnˈtɒlədʒi/, /ˌpælɪənˈtɒlədʒi/) is the scientific study of life existent prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch roughly 11,700 years before present. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). Paleontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges Cuvier's work on comparative anatomy, and developed rapidly in the 19th century. The term itself originates from Greek παλαιός, palaios, i.e. \"old, ancient\", ὄν, on (gen. ontos), i.e. \"being, creature\" and λόγος, logos, i.e. \"speech, thought, study\".Paleontology lies on the border between biology and geology, but differs from archaeology in that it excludes the study of anatomically modern humans. It now uses techniques drawn from a wide range of sciences, including biochemistry, mathematics and engineering. Use of all these techniques has enabled paleontologists to discover much of the evolutionary history of life, almost all the way back to when Earth became capable of supporting life, about 3,800 million years ago. As knowledge has increased, paleontology has developed specialised sub-divisions, some of which focus on different types of fossil organisms while others study ecology and environmental history, such as ancient climates.Body fossils and trace fossils are the principal types of evidence about ancient life, and geochemical evidence has helped to decipher the evolution of life before there were organisms large enough to leave body fossils. Estimating the dates of these remains is essential but difficult: sometimes adjacent rock layers allow radiometric dating, which provides absolute dates that are accurate to within 0.5%, but more often paleontologists have to rely on relative dating by solving the \"jigsaw puzzles\" of biostratigraphy. Classifying ancient organisms is also difficult, as many do not fit well into the Linnean taxonomy that is commonly used for classifying living organisms, and paleontologists more often use cladistics to draw up evolutionary \"family trees\". The final quarter of the 20th century saw the development of molecular phylogenetics, which investigates how closely organisms are related by measuring how similar the DNA is in their genomes. Molecular phylogenetics has also been used to estimate the dates when species diverged, but there is controversy about the reliability of the molecular clock on which such estimates depend.".
- Paleontology thumbnail Joda_paleontologist.jpg?width=300.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink earththeory.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink paleobiology.si.edu.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink www.palass.org.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink www.paleoportal.org.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink www.paleosoc.org.
- Paleontology wikiPageExternalLink faq.html.
- Paleontology wikiPageID "23084".
- Paleontology wikiPageLength "85247".
- Paleontology wikiPageOutDegree "362".
- Paleontology wikiPageRevisionID "707589374".
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Abiogenesis.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Absolute_dating.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Age_of_Enlightenment.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Albert_of_Saxony_(philosopher).
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Algae.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Amniote.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Amphibian.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Anatomically_modern_human.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Anatomy.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Annelid.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Anomalocaris.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Anoxic_event.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ape.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Archaeological_site.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Archaeology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Archosaur.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Astrobiology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Astronomy.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Avicenna.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Bacteria.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Bamboo.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Bathyurus_extans.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Before_Present.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Bilateria.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Billingsella_corrugata.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biochemistry.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biodiversity.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biogeography.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biomineralization.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Biostratigraphy.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Botany.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Brachiopod.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Brain.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cactocrinus_multibrachiatus.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Calyptraphorus_velatus.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian_explosion.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Carbon.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Carbon_dioxide.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Carboniferous.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Category:Earth_sciences.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Category:Evolutionary_biology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossils.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Category:Historical_geology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleontology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Central_dogma_of_molecular_biology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Darwin.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Chemistry.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Chimpanzee.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cladistics.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cnidaria.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Coal.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Coevolution.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Comparative_anatomy.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Continent.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Coprolite.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cosmology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinction_event.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Crocodilia.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Crown_group.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink DNA.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Devonian.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Dictyoclostus_americanus.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Dinosaur.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Early_modern_Europe.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Earth.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Earthworm.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Echinoderm.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ecological_crisis.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ecological_niche.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ecology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ecosystem.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Ediacaran_biota.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Embryology.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Embryophyte.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Endosymbiont.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Endotherm.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Engineering.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Erosion.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink Eukaryote.
- Paleontology wikiPageWikiLink European_land_mammal_age.