Adolf Herluf Winge
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Adolf Herluf Winge (19 March 1857 – 10 November 1923) was a Danish
zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...
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Biography

As a young student, along with his brother Oluf, Winge was interested in small
mammals A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three middle e ...
, particularly
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s,
shrew Shrews ( family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant shrews, West Indies shrews, or marsupial shrews, which belong to dif ...
s and
insectivora The Order (biology), order Insectivora (from Latin ''insectum'' "insect" and ''vorare'' "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals. Some species have now been moved out, leaving the remaining ones in the order ...
. He studied mammalian dentition and produced a comparison of cusp similarities. He worked at the Zoological Museum in the
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from 1885. A major work was his three volumes of ''E Museo Lundii'' on the extinct fauna of South America with 75 plates that he drew. He also studied the animal remains found in the kitchen-middens of Denmark. Winge was described as a Lamarckist by some authors.


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1857 births 1923 deaths Danish zoologists Lamarckism {{Denmark-scientist-stub