Do you know how are the animals divided? Do you know how many kinds of animals are there?
Not every animals are the same kinds, there are over millions of organisms on top the sky, under the ocean, and on the ground, there can be animals on top of the Horizon one million km and down one million km. So scientist want to make it more easier, they group the animals into thousands of group, and they also make a chart, so that if there are a new animals , then they can know what kind of animal it can be in, or what animals evolve to it.
I am going to talk about who start classifying animals, how they classify animals, what is the history of classifying how are they appeared9, and some examples of the animals classification how do they look like.
I. How is Biological taxonomy appeared?
Early time, Taxonomy has been called "the world's oldest profession." and naming and classifying our surroundings has likely been taking place as long as mankind has been able to communicate. It’s really important in the past, because they can know what animals are poisonous to not get hurts or not eating them.
The first to begin classifying all of the living things is Aristotle, Greece, 384-322 BC. The terms that he found out "invertebrates" and "vertebrates “ are still commonly using now. Aristotle’s student Theophrastus carries Aristotle thought, he wrote a classification of 480 plants call “ Historia Plantarum.” Again, several plant groups currently still recognized can be traced back to Theophrastus, such as Cornus, Crocus, and Narcissus. The next major turn-of-the-millennia era taxonomist came in the form of Pliny the Elder, Rome, 23-79 AD. His elaborate 160-volume work Naturalis Historia described many plants, and even gave many of them ...
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Order Carnivora ( carnivorous mammals, from bears to raccoons to harbor seals )
Family Felidae ( all cats )
Genus Panthera ( roaring cats: lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards )
Species leo ( lions )
V. Summary
Animals classification is very important, we have to have this in our world. In the past, people classify it because of the poisonous, even now we don’t want to get poisonous, so it’s really thankful that they thought about this. After 1500 years, scientist starts to get more deep in the animals classification, people start to know about animals, knows which is dangerous, which is poisonous, which one can’t be close to it, and scientist can know more about natural by animals classification. But there are more than millions kind of animals in the world, maybe most of the animals are still not been classify yet, scientist are still searching for them.
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Following the Egyptians were the Greeks, who began their study of anatomy around fifth century B.C. (400 B.C.) with the works of Alcmaeon and Empedocles, two Greek scientists. It was during this time that the anatomy of animals was studied and medical schools were built in cities such as Crotona, Italy and Cyrene, Africa. Alcmaeon of Croton was most likely the first person to dissect the human body for research purposes, while Empedocles was the person to first propose the idea that an ethereal substance called pneuma flowed through the blood vessels. Hippocrates was another famous person from Greece. Regarded as the Father of Medicine and one of the founders of anatomy, he was also a physician who studied anatomy and hypothesized about physiology. Hippocrates made anatomical inferences without dissection and instead through observations. He proposed the idea that diseases were not caused by supernatural forces or were punishments from the gods. The well-known Aristotle also contributed to the history of anatomy as he was the first to distinguish the difference between nerves and tendons and between arteries and blood vessels using knowledge gained from animal dissections. Herophilus, another anatomist, is known as one of the earliest “Fa...
The Social Construction Theory is defined as the event of individuals and or groups perceive real life events and objects and put a meaning to them. Social construction is an ongoing process and views can be modified because the concept is relying upon the communication from one person to another and different people can interpret things differently. One way society has constructed ideas is with animals. Throughout history people have created stories using animals as characters and those stories were passed down from generation to generation. Those stories can influence how people feel about the actual animals.
Animals have been greatly expandable and used for economic value. They have been used for food, shelter and transportation for many years. Before the 1950’s most veterinarians focused more on livestock because there were not many other animals. It was much easier to kill injured or dying animals, than to treat them back then. In the 1900’s almost everyone worked on farms. People were not willing to spend the money to keep their pets healthy so there were very few pets in the 1950’s. One of the first schools that only studied veterinary medicine was founded in Lyon, France by Claude Bourgelat in 1761. Bourgelat did not want to have students in his school that already had training in human medical science, he focused more on teaching people that had no experience. This school found ways to treat livestock diseases and advance the cause of public health. (Careers in Veterina...
Humans are curious creatures. This shows truth with Adam and Eve as they lived and explored the Garden of Eden. Adam used his mind to name the different animals. Ever since then, the human race has continued to learn and explore. This earliest learning had no name other than pure curiosity, but as people began to become scholars, this exploration became known as philosophy. This form of thinking became popular in the Greek city-states such as Athens. Philosophy was early scholar’s way of understanding life and how it worked. Plato is a famous philosopher, born in 429 B.C., who was passionate about finding logic, instead of blaming events on the Greek gods (Plato, Wikipedia). Almost 700 years later, in 354 A.D. another phenomenal philosopher,
They evolved into 2 different species by many factors in nature. The factors include genetic drift, mutation, natural selection, and etc. Genetic drift involves the bottleneck effect and the founder effect. I hypothesize that a bottleneck effect took place in the island that the rodents were living in. A natural disaster must of happened and the rodents that had high fitness survived. Therefore since one population survived, that makes them two separate species. I also hypothesize that there was a founder effect in the population of the rodents. A small portion of rodents migrated to Nevis island and reproduced. When this happened this created a whole new population of rodents. Another reason that they could have been 2 different species can be due to gene flow. Some rodents could of migrated to Nevis island.
and history. Many of the animals were found on the four different mountains in the world and
Chapter two consists of Darwin continuing his studies. He talks about variation in the natural world compared to the domesticated species. He defines species variation and says that every naturalist has a different idea of the definition. He explains to the reader that linking other species together by characteristics of variation is challenging because some are so similar but vary in other ways. Environmental conditions could be effecting the variation. Climate, temperature, the separation of the animals could transform them. The species changes over time and have chi...
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Darwin explain that, excepting for two reasons, variability cannot be distinguish from species. The first is by the discovery of intermedate ways of linking, and the other explains that by certain indefinite amount of differences between them; this mean that if the differences are few, are considerated and classified variabilities inside the same
When the average person thinks about zoology, they usually think about a zoo and or animals. As said in General Zoology, many questions come with this topic. “What is life? In what ways are the various kinds of animals alike or unlike in structure, internal processes, and modes of life? How do animals carry on their activities? How are the many kinds related to one another? In what ways does man resemble and differ from other living things? The answers to many of these questions are provided by the science of zoology.” (General Zoology, page 3). While zoology does involve animals, the general study of zoology is far more complicated then one would imagine. Zoology is a branch of biology that studies the classification, origins, habitats and behaviors of organisms. Someone who studies zoology is a zoologist, and has the tasks of learning about new species and their habitats. It is a job that if mastered, can be one of the most fulfilling and knowledgeable careers someone can obtain.
People that study history have found Chinese writings about the diseases of horses, oxen, and buffalos that dates all the way back to about 2,500 B.C. In about A.D. 500 a Roman wrote a book on what veterinarians do to help animals. Nothing else was written after that until a thousand years later when another book was written. Yet, there were those like Romans that had to learn their skills by working directly with the animals.
When thinking on the lines of evolution, animals and humans can be categorized in the same group since we have the ability to learn, remember past events, and experience emotions that can affect our thoughts, even on the decisions we have made in the past. This idea might sound very unrealistic but studies have shown that it is, in fact, a viable theory.
The beginning of anatomy and physiology, ironically, began with a curiosity in biology. The first man to create an important contribution to biology was Alcmaeon, in the 5th century, BC. He was the first scientist to have worked with dissection. His focus was in trying to find out from where and how human intelligence came to be. His research never intended to be anatomical. He merely stumbled upon anatomical research. Alcmaeon thought that when someone had a concussion it affected the mind. He believed this was where he was going to find his answer to where intelligence comes from. He began to think more and more on this idea and finally began dissecting bodies to try and find his answer. He discovered many new things in, near, and around the brain such as, the optic nerve and Eustachian tubes.
Overall, I feel that the objectives of the lesson was met as the children were able to sort the animals according to two different attributes and describe how they were sorted. This was achieved by asking the children questions to gauge their understanding and by scaffolding their learning as they attempted to sort the animals both individually and in small groups.