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单词 palaeontologist
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palaeontologist
noun[C]
UK(USpaleontologist)
uk
/ˌpæl.i.ɒnˈtɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us
/ˌpeɪ.li.ɑːnˈtɑː.lə.dʒɪst/
someone whostudiesfossilsas a way of gettinginformationabout thehistoryoflifeonEarth:
古生物学家
No palaeontologist has anyclueas to what alivingdinosauractuallylookedlike.活恐龙长得什么样，古生物学家都毫无线索。
Palaeontologists can nowlookinsidefossilswithoutdamagingthem.古生物学家现在可以观察化石内部而不损伤石头。
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palaeontology
More examples
  • Brazilian palaeontologists wereangeredby thesaleofpreciousrelicstotourists.
  • There has been muchdisagreementamong palaeontologists.
  • Palaeontologists areconfidentthat thejawbonefragmentstella muchlargerstory.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Palaeontology & fossils
  • ammonite
  • ammonoid
  • biozone
  • carbon dating
  • fossil
  • fossil record
  • fossilization
  • fossilize
  • fossilized
  • index fossil
  • microfossil
  • missing link
  • palaeontology
  • petrifaction
  • petrify
  • radiocarbon dating
(Definition ofpalaeontologistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpalaeontologist

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