Herluf Winge

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Adolf Herluf Winge
Danish
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, paleontology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Winge

Adolf Herluf Winge (19 March 1857 – 10 November 1923) was a

Danish zoologist
.

Biography

As a young student, along with his brother

mammals, particularly moles, shrews and insectivora. He studied mammalian dentition and produced a comparison of cusp similarities. He worked at the Zoological Museum in the University of Copenhagen 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.[1][2]

Winge was described as a Lamarckist by some authors.[3]

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  3. ^ Hansen, P (1902). Illustreret dansk Litteraturhistorie. Volume 3 (in Danish). Copenhagen: Gyldendals Forlag.