Rodolfo Vicente Tálice Ruiz (2 May 1899, in

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– 2 June 1999) was a

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an scholar, physician and writer. In the 1960s he was dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences,

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. An early advocate of

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in his country, he was the presidential candidate of the Green Eto-Ecologist Party in the elections of 1989 and

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.Dr. Rodolfo Tálice

Books

* ''Mendel - Enciclopedia del Pensamiento Especial'' (1968) * ''Mamíferos autóctonos - Nuestra Tierra'' (1969) * ''Cuentos, confesiones y conferencias'' (1969) * ''El Hombre, Agresión y Vinculación'' (1976) * ''Vejentud: Humano Tesoro'' (1979) * ''10 x 10 comportamientos destacables en los animales y en el hombre'' (1982) * ''Vocabulario científico universal algunas precisiones terminológicas'' (1988) * ''Bichos del terruño - Colección Referencias'' (1992) * ''Juventud - Humano tesoro el arte de vivir intensamente 100 años'' (1992) * ''El Sorprendente Cuerpo Humano'' (1993) * ''Enfermedades parasitarias del hombre y parásitos de interés médico etiología, epidemiología, patología, clínica, diagnóstico, tratamiento, profilaxis'' (1994) * ''Condiciones Para un Mañana Digno. El Punto de Vista Etológico'' (1994) * ''Comportamientos Destacables en los Animales y en el Hombre'' (-) * ''Etoecología Práctica'' (-) * ''Carta Abierta a Futuros Padres y Madres'' (-) ;Shared authorship * ''Estudio epidemiológico sobre la enfermedad de Chagas de la zona epidémica del Uruguay'' (1952) * ''Investigaciones sobre los roedores autóctonos del género Ctenomys ("Tucu-Tucu") especialmente desde el punto de vista biológico'' (1954) * ''Estudio monográfico sobre Ctenomys torquatus "Tucu-Tucu" especialmente desde el punto de vista biológico'' (1954) * ''Nuevas investigaciones sobre el comportamiento natural y experimental del roedor autóctono Ctenomys torquatus ("Tucu-Tucu")'' (1955) * ''Geografía de la Vida - Nuestra Tierra'' (1969) * ''Manual Práctico de Hongos Comestibles'' (-) * ''Hongos Comestibles de la América Meridional, cómo se recogen, cómo se reconocen, cómo se distinguen de los venenosos, cómo se preparan'' (1963)

References

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