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Duke University. Yoder received her B.A. in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1981.Before receiving her doctorate, Anne worked at both the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History, in the department of vertebrate zoology and department of mammology, respectively.
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to zoology: . Zoology – study of animals.Zoology, or "animal biology", is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the identification, structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
Minnie Abercrombie (14 November 1909 – 25 November 1984), also known as M. L. J. Abercrombie, was a British zoologist, educationalist and psychologist. She was known for her work on invertebrates and her work in the publishing industry, conducted with her husband, Michael Abercrombie.
Upon her return, and completion of her degree, Bjorndal was convinced she wanted to write her PhD thesis on sea turtles. However, Dr Archie Carr refused to accept doctoral students who wished to focus on sea turtles as he felt it was too broad of a topic for a dissertation. After camping outside his house, penning letters, and digitizing his ...
Distinguished contributions to zoology by amateur zoologists or professional zoologists in recognition of contributions which are outside the scope of their professional activities [110] United Kingdom: Trail-Crisp Award: Linnean Society of London: Outstanding contribution to biological microscopy that has been published in the UK [111] [112 ...
Axel Meyer (born 4 August 1960) is a German evolutionary biologist and a professor of zoology and evolutionary biology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.. Meyer is best known for his work on the evolution and adaptive radiation of African cichlid fishes, [1] [2] fish-specific genome duplications, [3] [4] molecular phylogenetics of vertebrates, [5] [6] and the role of ecological and sexual ...
This article considers the history of zoology since the theory of evolution by natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859. Charles Darwin gave new direction to morphology and physiology , by uniting them in a common biological theory: the theory of organic evolution.