Zoology

Zoology is the science of studying animal life. It is part of biology. Animal life is classified into groups called phyla, of which there are at least thirty.

Zoologists are scientists who study animals. They may work in laboratories, or do field research. The methods are many and various. At the heart, they cover the structure, function, ecology and evolution of animals. The structure is investigated by dissection, and microscopic examination. The function is investigated by observation and experiment. Palaeontology gives information about extinct animals. Zoologists may have jobs in zoos, museums, universities, and/or non-profit organizations.
 Select zoologists 

 Aristotle
 John Ray
 Julian Huxley
 Ernst Haeckel
 Jennifer Clack
 Charles Darwin
 Conrad Gessner
 Richard Dawkins
 Stephen Jay Gould
 Henry Walter Bates
 Thomas Henry Huxley
 John Gould (ornithology)
 Theodosius Dobzhansky 
 Dian Fossey (primatology)
 Jane Goodall (primatology)
 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
 Fritz Müller
 Gilbert White
 James D. Watson
 August Weismann
 John Maynard Smith
 Alfred Russel Wallace
 Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
 Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
 Louis Leakey (palaeoanthropology)
 Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
 Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
 Richard Owen (Natural History Museum)
 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
 E.O. Wilson, (entomology, founder of sociobiology)

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Ecology
Cytology
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Evolution
Chemistry
Biophysics
Biochemistry
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mendel
Molecular biology
List of animal phyla
Classical mechanics
Quantum mechanics
Mendelian inheritance

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