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Zoology

...ology ) E. O Wilson , b. 1929 , ( entomology , founder of sociobiology ) Jakob van Uexkll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology ) See also botany - the area of biology which studies plants list of biologists zootomy - the study of animal anatomy or animal dissection zoologica...

Taxonomy

...Durkheim also influenced Claude Lvi-Strauss , the founder of anthropological structuralism . Lvi-Strauss wrote two important books on taxonomies: Totemism and The Savage Mind . Such taxonomies as those analyzed by Durkheim and Lvi-Strauss are sometimes called folk taxonomies to distinguish them ...

Speciation

...lations is small (a scenario that leads to the " founder effect "). This kind of speciation is evident in many vertebrates ' taxa . See also the issue of Ring species . Another proposed mechanism of speciation is sympatry , by which new species emerge alongside the old. This might occur if, say, subpo...

Rudolf Steiner

...tor , and social thinker, who is best known as the founder of Anthroposophy and its practical applications,...nal, has prompted some critics to see Steiner as a founder of a religion, not as a philosopher in the usual sense of the word. The idea, if there is a degree...

Marcello Malpighi

...a microscope and he has also been described as a founder of comparative physiology and microscopic anatom...ded William Harvey . Malpighi is regarded as the founder of microscopic anatomy and the first histologist . Many microscopic anatomical structures are named...

Kary Mullis

...ge), and has two sons and one daughter. He is the founder of the company Altermune, LLC . Idiosyncratic views Mullis holds several highly idiosyncratic views. In his 1998 essay collection Dancing Naked in the Mind Field he relates experiences that he attributes to space alien visitors. He also clai...

Ichthyology

... Seth Meek John Treadwell Nicholls - China , founder of Copeia John Richardson Norman C. Tate Regan Donn E. Rosen Edwin C. Starks Franz Steindachner Achille Valenciennes Francis Willughby See also Important publications in ichthyology Reference Carl E. Bon...

Francis Galton

... coined the term), investigator of the human mind, founder of psychometrics, the science of measuring mental faculties. Historiometry and statistics He was born into the Darwin-Wedgwood family near Sparkbrook, Birmingham and was Charles Darwin 's half first cousin, his mother and Darwin's father ha...

Extinction

...viduals and make inbreeding more frequent. The founder effect can cause rapid, individual-based speciation and is the most dramatic example of a population bottleneck. Habitat degradation The degradation of a species' habitat may alter the fitness landscape to such an extent that the species is ...

Eugenics

.... Californian eugenicist Paul Popenoe became the founder of 1950s marriage counseling , a career change which initially grew out of his eugenic interests (promoting "healthy marriages" between "fit" couples). High school and college textbooks from the 1920s through the 1940s frequently contained chapter...

Cladistics

...racters. Willi Hennig is widely regarded as the founder of cladistics. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 Cladistic methods 3 Cladistic classification 4 See also 5 External links Introduction Based on a wide variety of information, which includes g...