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Animal World

Introduction and Historical Background

Who is the “father of modern zoology”?

Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), a Swiss naturalist, is often credited as the “father of modern zoology,” based on his three-volume Historia Animalium, which served as a standard reference work throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



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