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5.6: Introduction to Animal Diversity

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    83025
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    Thumbnail: Animal diversity. (CC BY-SA 2.5 / cropped from original; via Wikimedia Commons).

    Contributors and Attributions

    • Connie Rye (East Mississippi Community College), Robert Wise (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), Vladimir Jurukovski (Suffolk County Community College), Jean DeSaix (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jung Choi (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yael Avissar (Rhode Island College) among other contributing authors. Original content by OpenStax (CC BY 4.0; Download for free at http://cnx.org/contents/185cbf87-c72...f21b5eabd@9.87).


    This page titled 5.6: Introduction to Animal Diversity is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Tara Jo Holmberg.

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