University of Edinburgh 2011. The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute which is sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The Institute won international fame in 1996, when Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, there. A year later Polly and Molly were cloned; both sheep contained a human gene. Moray House School of Education, just off the Royal Mile, used to be the Moray House Institute for Education until this merged with the University in August 1998. The University has since extended Moray House's
Mammal species included 96 recently extinct. The word "[[:wikt:mammal|mammal]]" is modern, from the scientific name "Mammalia" coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, derived from the [[Latin language|Latin]] "[[wikt:mamma#Latin|mamma]]" ("teat, pap"). In an influential 1988 paper, Timothy Rowe defined Mammalia [[Phylogenetics|phylogenetically]] as the [[crown group]] of mammals, the [[clade]] consisting of the [[most recent common ancestor]] of living [[monotreme]]s ([[echidna]]s and [[platypus]]es) and [[theria]]n mammals ([[marsupial]]s and [[placental]]s) and all descendants of that ancestor. Since this ancestor lived in the [[Jurassic]] period, Rowe's definition excludes all animals from the earlier [[Triassic]], despite the fact that Triassic fossils in the [[Haramiyida]] have been