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This is a difficult question to answer, not least because brains do not fossilise.
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How plants and animals live, die and fossilise is the basis of stratigraphy.
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And digging sticks, used to unearth tubers and bulbs, do not fossilise.
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A large mammal ancestor might simply have failed to fossilise.
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Unlike my more recent ancestors these earliest remains had no skeletons so did not fossilise well.
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Tendons do not fossilise well, but they leave traces called Sharpey's fibers where they attach to the bone.
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The brain itself does not fossilise, but the inside of the cranium retains an impression of its contours.
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They fossilise an industrial structure that needs to change.
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It is an EU rule that unintended consequences, left for a few years, fossilise into special interests.
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- Fossilize: convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
- Fossilize: become mentally inflexible
- (fossilised) fossilized: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
- (fossilisation) fossilization: the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
- Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. ...
- Alternative spelling of fossilize
- (Fossilised) Objects which have been turned to stone, sometimes used in jewellery e.g petrified wood
- (fossilised) [semantics,pragmatics] A term referring to any phrase or expression which is non-productive and which does not vary in its form. This applies for example to idioms like topsy turvy where the words only exist in this combination.
