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 destruction]], though there are efforts to combat this. [[File:Mammal species pie chart.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|The orders [[Rodent]]ia (blue), [[Chiroptera]] (red) and [[Soricomorpha]] (yellow) together make up over 70% of mammal species. Mammal classification has been through several iterations since [[Carl Linnaeus]] initially defined the class. No classification system is universally accepted; McKenna & Bell (1997) and Wilson & Reader (2005) provide useful recent compendiums. [[George Gaylord Simpson]]'s "Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals" (AMNH "Bulletin" v. 85, 1945) provides [[systematics]] of mammal origins and relationships that were universally taught until the end of the 20th century. Since Simpson's classification, the [[fossil