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Paleontology vs Biogeography - What's the difference?

paleontology | biogeography |

As nouns the difference between paleontology and biogeography

is that paleontology is study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils while biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of living things.

paleontology

Alternative forms

* (chiefly British) * palaeontology (British)

Noun

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  • of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by (l).
  • Derived terms

    * micropaleontology * paleontologic * paleontological * paleontologist

    biogeography

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The study of the geographical distribution of living things
  • The geographical distribution of a particular living thing
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, Brian P. Hedlund & James T. Staley, chapter=Microbial Endemism and Biogeography, Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, editor=Alan T. Bull citation
  • , passage=First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies .}}

    Derived terms

    * palaeobiogeography