Zoology, also spelled zoölogy, is the branch of biology that focuses on the structure, function, behavior, and evolution of animals. The zoologist's pronunciation of "zoology" is /zoʊˈɑlədʒɪ/,[1] though a common spelling pronunciation is /zuːˈɑlədʒɪ/.
[edit] Systems of classification
Linnaeus's table of the Animal Kingdom from the first edition of
Systema Naturae (1735).
Morphography is the systematic exploration, tabulation, and characterization of data concerning animals, existing or extinct. It is similar to ethnography. Groups of people who have contributed to the field include:
- Past museum-makers of and their modern descendants, the curators and annotators of zoological collections
- Early explorers and modern naturalist travelers and writers
- Collectors of fossils and paleontologists
[edit] Notable zoologists
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In alphabetical order by surname:
- Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
- Aristotle
- David Attenborough
- Henry Walter Bates (Batesian mimicry, Amazon)
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
- Robert Broom (paleontologist)
- Rachel Carson (marine biologist)
- Archie Carr (Herpetology, esp. sea turtles)
- Archie Carr III, (wild mammals)
- Marjorie Harris Carr (Herpetology)
- Eugenie Clark (Ichthyology)
- William G. Conway (director of the Wildlife Conservation Society}
- Jeff Corwin (herpetology)
- Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
- Charles Darwin (theory of evolution, natural selection, sexual selection)
- Richard Dawkins (ethology, evolutionary biology)
- James R. Dixon (Herpetology)
- Gerald Durrell (zoologist)
- William Flower (mammals)
- Edmund Brisco Ford (ecological genetics)
- Dian Fossey (primatology)
- Birutė Galdikas (primatology)
- Greg Graffin (paleontologist and Punk Rock vocalist)
- Jane Goodall (primatology)
- Ernst Haeckel (marine biologist), (naturalist)
- Victor Hensen (planktology)
- Bernard Heuvelmans (cryptozoology)
- Julian Huxley (evolutionary synthesis, humanism, World Wildlife Fund,
UNESCO)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (evolution, agnosticism, science education)
- Steve Irwin (zoologist)
- Al-Jahiz
- Ernest Everett Just (academician)
- William Kirby (father of entomology)
- Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke (ornithology, herpetology)
- E. Ray Lankester (zoology and comparative anatomy)
- Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics; primarily a botanist)
- Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
- David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
- Nigel Marven (modern zoologist all fields but prefers prehistoric animals)
- Ernst Mayr (evolutionary biology)
- Fritz Müller (evolutionary biology, Müllerian mimicry, Brazil)
- Desmond Morris (ethology)
- Richard Owen (vertebrate palaeontology, dinosaurs, Natural History Museum)
- Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
- Eric Pianka (herpetologist)
- Peter Pritchard
- William Emerson Ritter (marine biology)
- Thomas Say (entomology)
- Sarah Schoenfeld (Zoologist)
- John Maynard Smith (evolutionary biology, genetics)
- Leonhard Hess Stejneger (Herpetologist)
- Austin Stevens (herpetology, especially snakes and other serpents.
- Shen Kuo (medieval Chinese zoologist)
- Su Song (medieval Chinese zoologist)
- Jakob von Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)
- Ernst Freiherr von Blomberg (anthrozoology and religion)
- Alfred Russel Wallace (natural selection, zoogeography, animal colouration, Amazon, East Indies)
- E.O. Wilson (entomology, especially ants, founder of sociobiology)
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