Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Mirko Malez, PhD. (November 5, 1924 – August 23, 1990) was a prominent Croatian palaeontologist, speleologist, geo-scientist, ecologist and natural history writer. He was known as a \"pioneer of Croatian speleoarchaeology\". He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy, JAZU (present-day Croatian, HAZU - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and one of only four Croatian PhDs of speleology (Josip Poljak 1922, Mirko Malez 1963, Srećko Božičević 1985, and Mladen Garašić 1986). Thanks to Malez's popularization of science, Varaždin county, in northern Croatia, is also known as a \"cradle of the Palaeolithic age\". Malez once described the emergence of early man in this area:\"Favourable climatic conditions, the flora and fauna present on the NW Croatian soils during the Pleistocene, enabled continuous immigration to this area, from the earliest Palaeolithic period until the upper Mesolithic. Hrvatsko Zagorje represented the natural ecumene for Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers through the whole period of the Pleistocene, and it is definitely a \"cradle of Palaeolithic\", not only for Croatia, but for the wider SE European area too.\"In his honor four new species were named: Dalmatichthys malezi (Radovčić 1975), Ilyocypris malezi (Sokač 1978), Mimomys malezi (Rabeder 1983) and Vaccinites malezi (Slišković 1991)Most of his papers and research interests were directed towards fossil mammals of the Pleistocene and the paleontological processing of certain species, determining their taxonomy, migrations and palaeogeography."@en }
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- Mirko_Malez abstract "Mirko Malez, PhD. (November 5, 1924 – August 23, 1990) was a prominent Croatian palaeontologist, speleologist, geo-scientist, ecologist and natural history writer. He was known as a \"pioneer of Croatian speleoarchaeology\". He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy, JAZU (present-day Croatian, HAZU - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and one of only four Croatian PhDs of speleology (Josip Poljak 1922, Mirko Malez 1963, Srećko Božičević 1985, and Mladen Garašić 1986). Thanks to Malez's popularization of science, Varaždin county, in northern Croatia, is also known as a \"cradle of the Palaeolithic age\". Malez once described the emergence of early man in this area:\"Favourable climatic conditions, the flora and fauna present on the NW Croatian soils during the Pleistocene, enabled continuous immigration to this area, from the earliest Palaeolithic period until the upper Mesolithic. Hrvatsko Zagorje represented the natural ecumene for Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers through the whole period of the Pleistocene, and it is definitely a \"cradle of Palaeolithic\", not only for Croatia, but for the wider SE European area too.\"In his honor four new species were named: Dalmatichthys malezi (Radovčić 1975), Ilyocypris malezi (Sokač 1978), Mimomys malezi (Rabeder 1983) and Vaccinites malezi (Slišković 1991)Most of his papers and research interests were directed towards fossil mammals of the Pleistocene and the paleontological processing of certain species, determining their taxonomy, migrations and palaeogeography.".