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Zoology (from
Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a subfield of
biology that focuses on the form, behaviour and
evolution of animals such as the
goat or
long-eared jerboa. As a very broad discipline, zoology itself has many subfields, such as herpetology, which focuses on
amphibians and
lizards. Although it has roots in ancient
China and the
Arabic world (before it went nuts) most modern zoology was started in the 19th Century, when the Victorian obsession for
knowledge and the invention of new technologies caused hundreds and thousands of naturalists to document the animal kingdom in unprecedented detail. The advances in
science brought about by zoology during this period, particularly in documenting the similarities behind groups of animals, led to the development of the
theory of evolution by
natural selection in 1859 by
Charles Darwin.
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