About the Department

The Department of Zoology (along with Botany and the Florida Museum of Natural History) is the unit on the campus of the University of Florida that deals explicitly with the conceptually unifying core disciplines of evolution and ecology, and with the mechanistic underpinnings needed to understand the origin, maintenance, and dynamics of biological systems (e.g. via the disciplines of genetics, behavior, and physiology). The teaching and research objectives of our department provide the broadly synthetic, conceptual foundation needed for applications of biological principles to specific taxa and systems by other units across the campus.