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Neontology
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Neontology 

a group of related sciences concerned with the contemporary biological world. Neontology is the study of recent organisms, their structural, functional, and phylogenetic characteristics, their individual development, and their relationships to the environment and among themselves. In cases where the objects of study are well-preserved remains of organisms from Quarternary deposits, for example, the carcasses of mammoths, it becomes difficult to distinguish the fields of interest of neontology from those of paleontology, the science of extinct animals and plants.
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To this end, the compiled studies use the actuopaleontological approach primarily: they use modern settings and present-day organisms to augment our understanding of the fossil record and bring together neontological and paleontological perspectives.
Predator-prey interactions: experimental and field approaches by Leighton, Lindsey R. / Journal of Shellfish Research
Neontological studies can use direct observation to investigate predation and species interaction; paleontological studies have to focus on devising indirect methods to infer interaction.
Detecting avian predation on bivalve assemblages using indirect ... by Stempien, Jennifer A. / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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