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History of Animals (Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens. It was written in the fourth century BC ...
Hunting dogs, Book 1. The Historia animalium was Gessner's magnum opus, and was the most widely read of all the Renaissance natural histories.The generously illustrated work was so popular that Gessner's abridgement, Thierbuch ("Animal Book"), was published in Zurich in 1563, and in England Edward Topsell translated and condensed it as a Historie of foure-footed beastes (London: William ...
200 c. Various compilers in post-classical and medieval times added to the Physiologus (or, more popularly, the Bestiary), the major book on animals for hundreds of years. Animals were believed to exist to serve man, if not as food or slaves then as moral examples. Early third century.
Progression of Animals. Progression of Animals (or On the Gait of Animals; Greek: Περὶ πορείας ζῴων; Latin: De incessu animalium) is one of Aristotle 's major texts on biology. It gives details of gait and movement in various kinds of animals, as well as speculating over the structural homologies among living things. [1 ...
For example, while one of the two principal topics covered in book I is the function of semen (gone, sperma), this account is not finalised until partway through book II. Book I (715a – 731b) Chapter 1 begins with Aristotle claiming to have already addressed the parts of animals, referencing the author's work of the same name .
The accompanying book, The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough (ISBN 0-563-53423-0), was published by BBC Books on 17 October 2002. Both DVD and book have been translated to other languages. The Dutch version of the DVD produced by Evangelische Omroep removed all references to (amongst others) evolution, fossils, and continental drift. [3]
List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record. List of plesiosaur genera. List of prehistoric malacostracans. List of prehistoric medusozoan genera. List of prehistoric nautiloid genera. List of prehistoric ostracod genera. List of prehistoric sea cucumbers. List of prehistoric sponge genera. List of trilobite genera.
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function but were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups. The cladistic term for the same phenomenon is homoplasy.