Zoology Jottings

Zoology has a discipline: evolution; zoology is vertically integrated, concerned with biological organisation at the level of organisms in their environment, organs, tissues, cells and molecules. This blog meanders through the animal kingdom, from aardvarks and anoles, through mouse and man, to zorillas and zebras.

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Sunday, 9 December 2018

Joan Procter, Arthur Loveridge and the Pancake Tortoise. 2. Joan Procter in London: Structure of the shell and the question of defensive ‘inflation’

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Embed from Getty Images Not content with gross anatomical description, Joan Procter threw whatever modern technique she could find to ...

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Joan Procter, Arthur Loveridge and the Pancake Tortoise. 1. Arthur Loveridge in Tanganyika

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To complete what I have to say about Joan Procter, I want to turn to what was then—and still is—regarded as her most important scientific i...

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Malcolm Peaker: Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.

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