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Unanswered Questions in Palaeontology
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Dear Colleagues,
In palaeontology, as in all sciences, many questions remain unanswered, and new ones emerge in the course of the scientific process, as new discoveries or interpretations reveal new problems. In the broad area covered by palaeontological science, unanswered questions take many forms and relate to various areas of research: origin and extinction of taxa, palaeobiogeographical distributions and patterns, phylogenetic interpretations, morphofunctional and palaeoecological reconstructions, gaps in the fossil record—to name but a few.
Dr. Eric Buffetaut
Dr. Julien Claude
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Keywords
- palaeontology
- origin and extinction of taxa
- palaeobiogeographical distributions and patterns
- phylogenetic interpretations
- morphofunctional and palaeoecological reconstructions
- gaps in the fossil record
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Diversity
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Geosciences
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Life
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Quaternary
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Animals
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Fishes
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Heritage
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