Search results for "History of Zoology" - New World Encyclopedia
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- phylum Echinodermata, and class Asteroidea, of which there are over 1800 known ... Characteristics of sea stars include that they exhibit a superficially ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior ... Tinbergen believed that the study of ethology should be applied to ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- odd-toed ungulates (Order Perissodactyla) of the family Equidae and the ... There are four extant species of zebra. The plains zebra (Equus quagga ...20 KB (3,083 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2023
- evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of ... Early in his career, Gould developed with Niles Eldredge the theory ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- In zoology, a horn is one of a pair of hard, pointed, often permanent ... While both a bony core and a covering of keratinous material constitute ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E.W. Scripps Company, a ... issued the London Literary Gazette, and many of his relatives in United States ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics, is a system of classifying ... " that represent the evolutionary tree of life. DNA (deoxyribonucleic ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period ... use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- for wildlife and nature photography. Much of the beauty is attributed to ... A significant portion of the Serengeti Plain is protected and preserved ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ... the same throughout their geological history. As noted by eminent evolutionist ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- who earned worldwide fame with his discovery of the first specimens of early ... dedicated to, if not obsessed with, the idea of finding what he believed to ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ... With the air of scientific respectability, Kinsey's publications ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- soldier, geologist and the second director of United States Geological Survey ... an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He earned ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- Microbiology is the study of microorganisms (microbes), which are ... as non-living, they are also subjects of study in microbiology. ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- and two toes on each foot, with the nail of the larger inner toe resembling ... The ostrich is the only living species of its family, Struthionidae ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- fish comprising the family Sphyraenidae of the order Perciformes, characterized ... waters and helping to maintain the balance of nature. == Description == ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- and paleontologist, famous for his studies of prehistoric cave art, such ... went beyond reality, and his interpretation of the artwork was very misleading ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
