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.

Monday, 31 August 2015

Giant Panda: life in the slow lane. But how?

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Most papers published in Science attract media attention. A number of articles picked up the story of studies on the metabolic rate of the...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 4. At London Zoo

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We know from the council minutes of the Zoological Society that when she died, Dorothy Sladden was working on Proteus anguinus , the cave-d...
Friday, 14 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 3. ...and Lamarck. Transference of Induced Food-Habit from Parent to Offspring in Stick Insects

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This series of three papers all published in Proceedings of the Royal Society and communicated by MacBride established that food preferenc...
Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 2. Frogs’ eggs, sports and monstrosities

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As well as for the inheritance of acquired characters, MacBride was also looking for environmental factors that caused mutations, in order,...

Dorothy Sladden (1907-1937): Ernest W. MacBride, Evolution and Eugenics. Part 1

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This is a sad story. It is also a much longer story than I thought at the outset and several posts will be needed to cover it; this is the ...
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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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