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Max Schlosser

German zoologist
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    …classification proposed by German zoologist Max Schlosser, some authorities have grouped the Bovinae, Cephalophinae, and Hippotragineae as the Boödontia and the Alcelaphinae, Antilopinae, and Caprinae as the Aegodontia, to indicate phyletic lines believed to have arisen early in bovid history. Boödonts and aegodonts have evolved differently in Africa and Eurasia,…

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