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paleontology
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The History of Love
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- Along with the jacket and the pilot's hat, my mother also gave me a book by someone named Daniel Eldridge who she said would deserve a Nobel if they gave them to paleontologists.†
paleontologists = people who study dinosaurs and/or other prehistoric life
- Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like being a paleontologist.†
paleontologist = someone who studies dinosaurs and/or other prehistoric life
- Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, let a few weeks pass, went back and scoured Fifth Avenue and Central Park for as many surviving scraps as he could find, then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from his scraps, that would be like being a paleontologist.†
- The only difference is that paleontologists study fossils in order to figure out the origin and evolution of life.†
paleontologists = people who study dinosaurs and/or other prehistoric life
- I went back to my seat and read one issue of Paleontologist Today.†
paleontologist = someone who studies dinosaurs and/or other prehistoric life
- I didn't have to think for very long to know that he couldn't help me with the thing I had come about, because even if he deserved a Nobel for being the greatest living paleontologist, he also deserved one for being the oldest.†
- "I read your book," I managed, "and I'm thinking of becoming a paleontologist.†
- He asked me what I wanted to become and I said I'd briefly considbrior iered paleontology, and then he asked me what a paleontologist did, so I told him if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shredded it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, etc., and then he asked me why I'd changed my mind, and I told him I thought I wasn't cut out for it, so he asked me what I thought I was cut out for, and I said, "It's a long story," so he said, "I have time," so I said, "You really want to know?" and he said Yes, so I told him the truth, beginning with my father's Swiss Army knife and the book of Edible Plants and Flowers in North A†
*paleontology = the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric ancient life
- He asked me what I wanted to become and I said I'd briefly considbrior iered paleontology, and then he asked me what a paleontologist did, so I told him if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shredded it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the museum's steps, etc., and then he asked me why I'd changed my mind, and I told him I thought I wasn't cut out for it, so he asked me what I thought I was cut out for, and I said, "It's a long story," so he said, "I have time," so I said, "You really want to know?" and he said Yes, so I told him the truth, beginning with my father's Swiss Army knife and the book of Edible Plants and Flowers in North A†
paleontologist = someone who studies dinosaurs and/or other prehistoric life
Definitions:
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(1)
(paleontology) the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric ancient life
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)