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natural history

study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment
Intangible academic_discipline Q484591
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Summary

natural history is an academic discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,322 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: aspect of history[3], branch of history[4], subject of depiction[5]
  • Subclass of: natural science[6]
  • Commons category: Natural history[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Natural history[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Natural history[11]
  • Different from: Natural History[12], naturalism[13], history of science[14], natural science[15]
  • Is the study of: nature[16]
  • Practiced by: naturalist[17], natural historian[18]

Why It Matters

natural history has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 78 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Aldo Leopold Anania Shirakatsi Carl Linnaeus Charles Darwin Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Krohg Digital Atlas of Idaho Farabi Friedrich Parrot history of science John Ray Ludwig Reichenbach Mikhail Lomonosov National Geographic natural science Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences science education Ulisse Aldrovandi

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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