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==Biology== * February 21 β The last known [[Carolina parakeet]] (the only [[parrot]] species native to the [[eastern United States]]) dies in [[Cincinnati Zoo]]. * Around 1000 [[pilot whale]]s [[Cetacean stranding|strand]] in the [[Chatham Islands]]. * [[Ronald Fisher|R. A. Fisher]] puts forward a [[genetics|genetic]] model that shows that continuous variation could be the result of [[Mendelian inheritance]] in his paper "[[The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance]]". * [[Jean Henri Fabre|J. Henri Fabre]]'s ''The Sacred Beetle, and others'' published in English.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fabre |first=Jean-Henri |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8946 |title=The Sacred Beetle, and others |date=1918 |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company |location=New York |translator-last=Teixeira de Mattos |translator-first=Alexander |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8946}}</ref> * [[Jacques Loeb]]'s ''Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct'' published in the United States.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Loeb |first=Jacques |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/18452 |title=Forced movements, tropisms, and animal conduct |date=1918 |publisher=J.B. Lippincott company |location=Philadelphia and London |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.18452}}</ref>
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