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  • invertebrate zoology
    • 1700s:
      • naming of species that were relevant to economic pursuits, such as farming (pests and pest control)
      • entomology changed greatly and rapidly[1]--many zoologists/naturalists working with hexapods
      • parasitology/worms
        • Nicolas Andry de Boisregard--French physician[1]
          • worms cause disease
          • worms do not spontaneously form in human/animal gut; must be some 'seed' that enters the body and which contains the worm in some form
            • spontaneous generation still argued over
        • Antonio Vallisneri[1]
          • insect reproduction--sawfly
          • parasitic worms--Ascaris and Neoascaris
            • worms from eggs
      • Linnaeus
        • insects and intestinal worms in Systema Naturae (first edition published in 1735)[1]
          • tenth edition as true starting point for modern classification scheme for animals[2]
        • universal system of classification and binomial nomenclature
          • genus and species, but also higher levels of classification[3]
          • study of/investigation into biological diversity[2]
          • based on few characters; artificial system[4]
          • description of named organisms[3]
    • 1800s
      • Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection
        • informed by study of insects while abroad (both Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace)[5]
        • many species of invertebrate collected while aboard the Beagle (lots of insects)
          • sexual dimorphism, geographic distribution, mimicry
        • immutability of species major hurdle in acceptance of theory[6]
    • 20th century
      • Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969)
        • Wrote many volumes detailing work on invertebrates
        • Awarded Linnean Society Gold Medal for her invertebrate textbooks
        • Did research and furthered knowledge on protozoans, flatworms, and coelenterates [7]
      • phylogenetics
        • Willi Hennig
          • entomologist
          • publication of Phylogenetic Systematics in 1966
            • redefinition of the goals of classification/systematic schemes for living things
            • focus on evolutionary relationships instead of morphology
            • definition of monophyly, ideas about hierarchical classification
            • nothing on outgroup comparison, though this method is important today and Hennig was apparently aware of it[8]
    • The Division of Invertebrate Zoology
      • A group of invertebrate zoologists set up to study and document invertebrates
      • Has a collection of 500,000 species that it's examined
      • Analyzes how the species are related through DNA analysis[9]
  1. ^ a b c d Egerton, Frank N. (2008-10-01). "A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 30: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology During the 1700s". The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 89 (4): 407–433. doi:10.1890/0012-9623(2008)89[407:AHOTES]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 2327-6096.
  2. ^ a b Reid, Gordon McGregor (2009-01-01). "Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778): His Life, Philosophy and Science and Its Relationship to Modern Biology and Medicine". Taxon. 58 (1): 18–31.
  3. ^ a b Winsor, Mary P. (1976-01-01). "The Development of Linnaean Insect Classification". Taxon. 25 (1): 57–67. doi:10.2307/1220406.
  4. ^ Tuxen, S L. "Entomology Systematizes and Describes: 1700-1815." In History of Entomology, edited by Ray F. Smith, Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, 95-118. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1973.
  5. ^ Ross, Herbert H. "Evolution and Phylogeny." In History of Entomology, edited by Ray F. Smith, Thomas E. Mittler, and Carroll N. Smith, 171-84. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc, 1973.
  6. ^ Clark, John F. Bugs and the Victorians. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
  7. ^ Hyman, Libbie (1991). "Libbie Hyman" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ Richter, Stefan; Meier, Rudolf (1994-01-01). "The Development of Phylogenetic Concepts in Hennig's Early Theoretical Publications (1947-1966)". Systematic Biology. 43 (2): 212–221. doi:10.2307/2413462.
  9. ^ "Invertebrate Zoology". AMNH. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)