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natural history
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study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment
Natural history is the study of plants, animals, and other organisms as they exist in their natural environments, rather than in laboratories or isolation. It matters because it helps us understand how different species live, interact with each other, and adapt to their surroundings in the real world.
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Research
127,813 papers- Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology.ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2019Green DW, Watson JA, Jung HS et al.DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700238
- The pathological anatomical collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna.ReviewWiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2024Winter E, Teschler-Nicola M, Macfelda K et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10354-022-01001-5
- How can natural history museums help nature recover?ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution · 2026Norris K, Tweddle JDOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.12.008
- Natural-history collections face fight for survival.Nature · 2017DOI: 10.1038/544137b
- Fund natural-history museums, not de-extinction.Nature · 2021Moreau CS, Ware JLDOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-02710-4
- Preproject 'Swiss Virtual Natural History Collection'.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023Petrus A, Wildi T, Müller SDOI: 10.1093/database/baad072
- A global approach for natural history museum collections.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Johnson KR, Owens IFP, Global Collection GroupDOI: 10.1126/science.adf6434
- Natural history: first museologist's legacy.Nature · 2015Romano M, Cifelli RL, Vai GBDOI: 10.1038/517271c
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Encyclopedic overview
Black and white tables of natural history, from Ephraim Chambers's 1728 Cyclopaedia.
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is called a naturalist or natural historian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “natural history” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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