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Fossilization Processes

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Organic Geochemistry

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Fossils have been simply defined as traces of ancient life. Paleontology, the study of these remnants, can thus well be thought of as four-dimensional biology [1]. To adapt one description of biology,” the aim of paleontology is to understand the structure, functioning and history of ancient organisms and of populations of such organisms” [2]. Because of the nature of their material, however, paleontologists have often needed information on aspects of modern life that have scarcely interested neontologists. Examples that might be cited are the whole field of actuopaleontology (with close links to forensic medicine — see below), the study of population structures not only of living communities but also of dead assemblages [3], and the detailed morphological study of preservable tissues.

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