<div dir="auto"><div>I would reccomend just a simple natural history. The definition of that phrase is: <span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">the scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This gives a broad interpretation and the general public typically thinks of both biological and paleontological sciences when looking at natural history in the sciences.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Darrah Steffen</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PR Assistant</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sternberg Museum of Natural History</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">3000 Sternberg Drive</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:roboto,helveticaneue,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hays, KS 67601</span></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#3c4043" face="roboto, helveticaneue, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:27 AM Callomon,Paul <<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu">prc44@drexel.edu</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study of life on Earth. “Paleontology” and “Biology” are both time-specific (the former explicitly, the latter by usage) and “integrated biology” is not clear. Is there a word
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Paul Callomon</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
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