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Uncritical accumulation of information derived from the necessities of obtaining food, materials for clothing
and shelter, substances to cure ailments and necessary information about human body
THEOPHRATUS (372-287 BC) Pioneer studies of the plants nature GALEN (130 BC-200 AD)
Began to study human anatomy and carried out the first physiological experiment on animals
Accurate studies in plant, animal and human anatomy. First biology textbooks
Otto Brunfels (14891534), Konrad von Gesner (1516-1565) and Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566)
William Harvey (1578-1657) Discovery the bloods circulation Andrea Cesalpino (1519-1603)
Disproved the spontaneous origin of life from non living matter Lazaro Spallanzani
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) Discovery the cellular nature of cork and to whom we owe the term cell
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Systematic classification of all kind of living plants and animals
System of nomenclature in which all living things are arranged by genera and species
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) The term Biology Use and disuse theory of evolution, by which he tried
to show that physical characteristics acquired during the life of an individual could be passed on to its offspring
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Proposed natural selection as an explanation of the mechanism by which
evolutionary changes take place MODERN BIOLOGY 17th CENTURY 19th CENTURY
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) Concept of gene and carrier in inherited traits (Nobel Prize)
Modern basis of ecology Ernest Haeckel (1834-1919) Ecolgy came into existence. Stated
that an organism was the product of the interaction of its enviroment with heredity factors
H.J. Muller (18901967) First to show that mutations could be artificially induced by radiation (Nobel Prize)
20th CENTURY