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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.
14th century: First record of cucumbers cultivation in Great Britain. [33] 1390: The English cookbook, The Forme of Cury, published, including one of the earliest recipes for frumenty; 15th century: The Portuguese began fishing cod [69] ~1450: Written records of palm oil being used as food from European travelers to West Africa. [40]
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 ...
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.
2001 - First insects from the suborder Mantophasmatodea are discovered. 2001 – Publication of the first drafts of the complete human genome (see Craig Venter). 2002 – First virus produced 'from scratch', an artificial polio virus that paralyzes and kills mice. 2007 – Commercialization of Illumina Next generation Sequencing tools. This has ...
Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈ m ɛ n d əl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian [4] [5] biologist, meteorologist, [6] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
The biologists provided another way to look at it. The total biomass (which is the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume) of all adult humans on earth is estimated to be 287 million tons .
Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.