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ZOOLOGY
Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.
The word zoology comes from Greek Ζωο, zoo ("animal"), and λογος, -logy ("the study of").
Notable zoologists
- Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
- Aristotle
- Bonnaterre, Pierre-Joseph
- Archie Carr, (June 16, 1909-May 21, 1987) (Herpetology), esp. sea turtles
- Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
- Richard Owen (proposed archetypes for major groups of organisms)
- Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
- Richard Dawkins (ethology)
- Dian Fossey (primatology)
- Arthur David Hasler, (January 5, 1908-March 23, 2001) (limnology, ichthyology, salmon homing)
- Victor Hensen, (February 10, 1835-April 5, 1924) (planktology)
- Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology)
- Steve Irwin (February 22, 1962-September 4, 2006)
- William Kirby (father of entomology)
- Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
- Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
- David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
- Ernst Mayr (1905-2005), influential evolutionary biologist, one of the founders of the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary theory in the 1940s.
- Desmond Morris (ethology)
- Ron Nowak (wild mammals)
- Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
- Thomas Say (entomology)
- Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
- E. O Wilson, b. 1929, (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
- Jakob van Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)
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