The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology is organized to integrate the many fields of specialization which occur in the broad field of
biology.[1]
The society was formed in 1902 as the American Society of Zoologists, through the merger of two societies, the "Central Naturalists" and the "American Morphological Society" (founded in 1890).[2] The
Ecological Society of America split from it in 1915, and another society of
geneticists also split from it in 1930.[1] In 1996 the name was changed to the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.[1]
^Quinn, C. Edward (1982), "Ancestry and beginnings: The early history of the American Society of Zoologists", American Zoologist, 22 (4): 735–748,
doi:10.1093/icb/22.4.735.
^McCain, Katherine W. (April 2010), "Core journal literatures and persistent research themes in an emerging interdisciplinary field: Exploring the literature of evolutionary developmental biology", Journal of Informetrics, 4 (2): 157–165,
doi:
10.1016/j.joi.2009.11.004.