Editing 1971 in science (section)

==Biology==
* July – Francis G. Howarth discovers communities of specialized [[thermophile]] cave animals living in lava tubes at [[Hawaii Volcanoes National Park]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Cavernicoles in Lava Tubes on the Island of Hawaii|first=Francis G.|last=Howarth|journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]]|volume=175|issue=4019|date=1972-01-21|pages=325–326|jstor=1733505|doi=10.1126/science.175.4019.325|pmid=17814543|bibcode=1972Sci...175..325H|s2cid=36219772 }}</ref> 
* [[C. A. W. Jeekel]] publishes ''Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Diplopodorum''.
* [[John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)|John O'Keefe]] discovers [[place cell]]s in the mammalian brain.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=O'Keefe|first1=John|last2=Dostrovsky|first2=Jonathan|year=1971|title=The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat|journal=[[Brain Research]]|volume=34|issue=1|pages=171–175|doi=10.1016/0006-8993(71)90358-1|pmid=5124915}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Binder|first=Marc D|title=Encyclopedia of Neuroscience|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopedianeur00bind|url-access=limited|year=2009|publisher=Springer|isbn= 978-3-540-23735-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopedianeur00bind/page/n3228 3166]}}</ref>