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If in the digital world, an array of data in exponential growth is compiled, as expressed by Microsoft in the following: “data volume is expanding tenfold every five years. Much of this new data is driven by devices from the more than 1.2 billion people who are connected to the Internet worldwide, with an average of 4.3 connected devices per person (Microsoft_Modern_Data_Warehouse_white_paper.pdf (2016, p. 6) – https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/sql-server/big-data-data-warehousing),” their redistribution varies according to the topic concerned. Thus, the animal world can be broken down according to a descriptive and analytical mode (biology, for example) but also through the emotional field of the human being.

The living world is based on the synthesis of complex molecular developments which have evolved towards an autocatalytic system, reproductive and evolutionary (Calvin). Darwin was the precursor of many studies on the origin and evolution of species. In this regard, Philippe et al....

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Martin, M. (2018). Animals. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_7-1

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