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...Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), one of the three museums composing the Museum of Natural History, includes most of the university’s biological specimens...
...MCZ was founded in 1859—the same year that Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species—by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz, who stridently rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution...
According to Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology James Hanken, director of the MCZ and curator of the herpetology collection, Agassiz’s views had a large impact on the original work of the museum...
...MCZ is applying the new science of DNA to gain insight into old specimens, according to Hanken...
Currently the Curator of Mammology at the MCZ, Crompton uses the animals on display there as examples for his anatomy classes...