neotologist

English

Noun

neotologist (plural neotologists)

1. A student of neotology; one versed in the science of neology.
   1. Someone who studies newly discovered species, minerals, etc.
      • 1984, N Eldredge, “Simpson’s Inverse: Bradytely and the Phenomenon of Living Fossils”, in N. Eldredge, S.M. Stanley, editors, Living Fossils. Casebooks in Earth Sciences:

        Briefly stated, the transformational view of the origin of species (a view most commonly found in the paleontological literature but not uncommonly broached when neotologists think about how species "behave" in geologic time) sees evolution as the accumulation of morphologic, hence genetic, change

      • 1986, Louis J. Gross, Robert M. Miura, Some Mathematical Questions in Biology: Plant Biology, page 46:

        Paleontologists and neotologists alike have placed emphasis on the role of developmental constraints on evolution (Albrech 1982, Gould 1980, Iltis 1983).

      • 2019, Ronald Singer, Encyclopedia of Paleontology:

        While neotologists have concentrated on unraveling how the three living groups and the trilobites are related to each other, paleobiologists have used the additional data from these unaligned fossils to derive a more inclusive classification.

   2. Synonym of neonatologist
      • 1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, Health Information Systems:

        We sent in a neotologist and in 2 years he brought that rate down to less than half of what it was before.

      • 1999, South African Medical Journal - Volume 89, Issues 7-12:

        Alan Rothberg, a US-trained and certified neotologist, was formerly Professor and Head of Paediatrics and Child Health at Wits University.

      • 2013, Peter De Cruz, Comparative Healthcare Law, page 400:

        Adult criteria are inappropriate for infants, but it was found that Dutch doctors sometimes do actively end the life of a child with the specific consent of the parents; a recent survey revealed that as many as 45% of neotologists and intensivists had intentionally done so.