Applied Palaeontology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521841993
Subjects: Evolution; Palaeontology; Science/Mathematics; Science; Applied Sciences; Paleontology; Science / Paleontology
First sentence: Palaeontology incorporates several, overlapping, areas, the principal of which are: Systematic palaeontology, or taxonomy, that is, the documentation, description and classification of new species and higher-level taxa of fossils Phylogenetics, that is, the analysis and interpretation of their evolutionary relationships Palaeobiology, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their relationships to evolving earth and life processes and environments, and their application to the elucidation thereof Biostratigraphy, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their ordered succession, their relationships to evolving earth and life history, and their application to the elucidation thereof.