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Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
Although the concept of zoology as a single coherent field arose much later, the zoological science emerged from natural history reaching back to the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Over the 18th and 18th centuries, zoology became an increasingly professional scientific discipline. Explorer-naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt investigated the interaction between organisms and their environment, and the ways this relationship depends on geography, laying the foundations for biogeography, ecology and ethology.
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