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.

Sunday, 16 February 2014

The Art of the Soluble: The Ignorant Are Still Getting Medawar Wrong

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Just the other day I saw some ignoramus sounding off in a blog that Medawar was, by his labelling science (and the title of one of his books...
Thursday, 6 February 2014

Leeches in Sri Lanka: A Coincidence Shines the Light

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Last November, having got drenched from a sudden tropical shower, I was sheltering with others in the party at the entrance to Sinharaja For...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Russell's Viper (Daboia russelli) in Sri Lanka

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In my last post, I described how Burgess Barnett and Gwyn Macfarlane had found in the 1930s that the venom from Russell's Viper (now Dab...
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Burgess Barnett. Curator of Reptiles, London Zoo 1932-37. Herpetologist, Medical Man and War Hero

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Very few books on reptiles and amphibians, let alone keeping reptiles and amphibians, were published during the middle decades of the 20th c...
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Monday, 20 January 2014

The Afterlives of Animals: Musing on Museology. Why Did Zoology Museums Decline?

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I am reading The Afterlife of Animals *, a book about iconic specimens in natural history museums. Essentially a sociological book on museol...
Saturday, 11 January 2014

What Triggers Birth in Mammals?

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I was reminded of my post from 31 August 2013 on the length of pregnancy and on animals which synchronise the onset of parturition when I re...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Darwin's Finches. Experiences in the Galapagos Islands

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While the search goes on for the genes involved in the evolutionary divergence of Darwin’s finches*, together with the molecular mechanisms ...
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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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