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mammalogy

Mammalogy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
-Subphylum Vertebrata (Craniata)
-Class Mammalia

Endothermic vertebrates with hair, mammary glands, 3 middle ear bones and other unifying features (see p. ... Form and Function

The field of mammalogy can be approached from many directions
-ecosystem -as a resource
-cellular -we are mammals
-etc. -behavior

Chapter 2 History of Mammalogy
Starts, we assume with prehistoric humans and other hominids
-mammals were food
-mammals were predators
-eventually, mammals were domesticated
-mammals were even the subject of worships and religious rituals

Whereas mammalogy had its beginnings in prehistory, as a scientific field we can trace it back to the Greek and Roman Philosophers. ...

Mammalogy (and other sciences) did not advance much until at least the 1200’s and not substantially until the 1500’s with the exploration of the world be the Europeans

Mark Catesby (1683-1749) described many of the mammals in the English colonies in what is now the SE US and Bahamas

Georges Buffon (1707-1788) a Frenchman compiled (but did not actually write much of) the 44 vol. ...

Trappers, fur traders, army officers, and RR people all contributed to early mammalogy in the North America. ...

Museums have been important to mammalogy since the earliest times (e. ...

Emergence of Mammalogy as a Science
-As I have already discussed began with the Greek Philosophers.
-HOWEVER, clean up to the 1800’s most scientists studied multiple taxa and it really wasn’t until the late 1800’s and early 1900’s that mammalogy emerged as a distinct discipline. ...
-Most centers of mammalogy formed around major museums at Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Cornell, Kansas, Texas Tech, and UC Berkeley.

Joseph Grinnell (1877-1939) was at VC Berkeley
-Prime force in mammalogy and W.J Hamilton (1902-1990) at Cornell

As the 20th Century progressed, mammalogy moved out of the museums into many different areas. ...
-I will not discus all topics in this chapter because many stray from the central topic- mammalogy
-I will illustrate or touch on several important points

-Anisogamy- female’s gametes are larger and require more energy to produce and therefore are likely to be a limited resource for which male’s compete.

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Title: mammalogy

Words: 8473
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Pages: 33.9
submitted by: BOW2004

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