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The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist, Darwinist, founder of the world's first zoological research station, in Naples; David Don (1799–1841), British botanist who described major conifers discovered in his time, including the Coast Redwood.
The founder of experimental biology and the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. [57] Population genetics: Ronald A. Fisher, Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Haldane [58] Protozoology: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) [9] First to produce precise, correct descriptions ...
Considered to be the first acknowledged microscopist. Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microscopic organisms, using simple single-lensed microscopes of his own design. [1] 1729–1799 Lazzaro Spallanzani: Italian Proved that bacteria did not arise due to spontaneous generation by developing a sealed, sterile broth medium. [2] [3] 1749 ...
He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound microscope that he designed. [7] Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. [8]
He published a report on his work with hawkweed, [53] a group of plants of great interest to scientists at the time because of their diversity. However, the results of Mendel's inheritance study in hawkweeds were unlike those for peas; the first generation was very variable, and many of their offspring were identical to the maternal parent.
The study, published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, looked at data collected from 204 adults between the ages of 40 to 60. The researchers out of Penn State had participants go about their ...
c. 380 BC – Diocles wrote the oldest known anatomy book and was the first to use the term anatomy. c. 350 BC – Aristotle attempted a comprehensive classification of animals. His written works include Historion Animalium , a general biology of animals, De Partibus Animalium , a comparative anatomy and physiology of animals, and De ...