This group collects the Life Sciences subcategory's members whose defining work concerns zoology: the study of animals, spanning ornithology, entomology, herpetology and the other animal-focused subfields, from the earliest classifiers of the animal kingdom to modern field zoologists. It is kept apart from Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, whose members study how species interact with their environment and change over time rather than animal classification and biology specifically.
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1. Zoology (Wikipedia)
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Zoology is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
Carl Vogt (Wikipedia)
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In 1842, during his time with Louis Agassiz, he discovered the mechanism of apoptosis
Hermann Burmeister (Wikipedia)
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In the field of herpetology he described many new species of amphibians and reptiles
Spencer Fullerton Baird (Wikipedia)
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He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (Wikipedia)
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He described several birds collected by Russian explorers off the Pacific Coast of North America
Franz Leydig (Wikipedia)
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In 1857 Leydig became a full professor of zoology and comparative anatomy
Oscar Hertwig (Wikipedia)
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By studying sea urchins he proved that fertilization occurs due to the fusion of a sperm and egg cell
Carl Chun (Wikipedia)
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Chun was a specialist on cephalopods and plankton
Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (Wikipedia)
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He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte
Heinrich Frey (Wikipedia)
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was a German-born Swiss entomologist who studied Lepidoptera
Ernst Ehlers (Wikipedia)
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He was a leading authority on polychaetes
Alexander W. von Götte (Wikipedia)
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He is remembered for his studies involving the biological development of various animals
Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld (Wikipedia)
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Frauenfeld worked on all insect orders, but mostly on the Diptera
Wilhelm Kobelt (Wikipedia)
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He specialized in the field of malacology
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