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- See also changes related to History of biology, or pages that link to History of biology or to this page or whose text contains "History of biology".
Parent topics
- History [r]: Study of past human events based on evidence such as written documents. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
- History of Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
Subtopics
- Alfred Russel Wallace [r]: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independently of Darwin. [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Ernst Haeckel [r]: (1834–1919) German zoologist and one of the founders of evolutionary and developmental biology. [e]
- Ernst Mayr [r]: (1904-2005) German biologist and major proponent of evolutionary philosophy. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from non-living systems. [e]
- Marcello Malpighi [r]: (1628-1694), Italian scientist who creatively exploited the early microscope as Galileo did the early telescope, discoverer of the capillaries, and regarded as the founder of microscopic anatomy (histology). [e]
- Molecule [r]: An aggregate of two or more atoms in a definite arrangement held together by chemical bonds. [e]
- Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. [e]
- History of agriculture [r]: The story of systematic food production during the past 10,000 years. [e]
- Tank (military) [r]: A large land combat vehicle that moves on continuous tracks rather than wheels, has its primary armament in a rotating armored turret, is armored against more than small arms fire, and, while it can be extremely effective in many combat situations, is optimized to kill other tanks [e]
- Plymouth Colony [r]: English colony in North America, 1620-1691, until it was absorbed by Massachusetts. [e]