Talk:Comparative anatomy

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Contents 1 Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week 2 No Cuvier? 3 Animal anatomy 4 Merger proposal

[edit] Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week

Chronospecies is a current candidate on Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week. If you would like to see this article improved vote for it here. --Fenice 17:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Cuvier?

Why no mention of Georges Cuvier, founding father of comparative anatomy and giant in the field (see the Wikipedia article on GC)? It's like discussing evolution without mentioning Darwin. 213.7.17.134 (talk) 09:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Animal anatomy

What sort of redirect page is this? Morphology => Comparative anatomy? That is a MESS! Berton 16:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Comparing anatomy is most defiantly a useful technique, but it is not the whole story of animal anatomy. I have been advocating that we massively boost the amount of info wikipedia provides on this issue. It could be both interesting and informative, but right now it not anything at all, as it doesn't exist on the site. I propose the following pages to be created:

• animal anatomy or zootomy - the parent page (perhaps with this article merged into it)
  • vertebrate anatomy
    • mammal anatomy (perhaps also marsupial anatomy and montreme anatomy)
    • bird anatomy - there is already a bird skeleton article, and more than enough info can be taken from the bird article
    • reptile anatomy (as of 08/05/06 redirects to reptile)
    • amphibian anatomy
    • bony fish anatomy
      • cartilaginous fish anatomy
  • invertebrate anatomy
    • crustacean anatomy
    • insect anatomy etc...

The list could go on forever, I'm not sure whether ALL the possible articles deserve to exist, but most certainly the mammal/bird/reptile/amphibian/fish ones do, as that is what we all grown up with as the five main animal groups from early school. These article currently exist to deal with this field:

• cat anatomy - poor
• dog anatomy - good, but isn't really anatomy, more their physical appearance
• frog zoology - good
• [category:horse anatomy] - a whole category, with articles such as equine forelimb anatomy
• bird skeleton - good

I have to admit I am no expert, I propose this in the hope that someone who is can help. What does everyone think? mastodon 15:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

I'm suggestion merging comparative anatomy with comparative vertebrate anatomy, since the latter is even more of a stub than this, and a single page will be more than sufficient to explain the subject in detail. I'm going to completely re-write the page once the merge is complete. Mokele (talk) 20:21, 24 March 2009 (UTC)