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zoology

[zoh-ol-uh-jee] / zoʊˈɒl ə dʒi /




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Attenborough's lifelong passion for the natural world began as child, and he went on to study geology and zoology at university.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

At Birmingham University, he studied zoology but refused to do animal experiments.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Before turning to literature, Wells had studied zoology, and though much of what he had learned has now been superseded, the view of race advanced in this book, for instance, has held up well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"Ants are everywhere," said lead author Arthur Matte, a Ph.D. student in zoology at the University of Cambridge.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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