BIO 1140 Final: Lecture 1-8 all lecture notes
16 Oct 2011
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Lecture 1: biology, biologists and bioscience part i. History of biology, a natural science, compared to that of the physical sciences. How biology is done scientific method in natural sciences: defining biology (treviranus 1802): The subject matter of our investigations will be the various forms and manifestations of life, the conditions and laws controlling their existence, and the causes by which this is affected. The science, which occupies itself with these subjects, we shall designate by the name biology, or science of life. Only early 1800"s was biology a real science (not coined until 200 years ago: important stages in the history of biology. 400 bce 450: greek and roman ages. 20th century: 400 bce 450: greek and roman ages. Hippocrates (460 370 bce): grandfather of medicine. Aristotle (384 322 bce): wrote history of animals . Theophrastus (371 287 bce): studied botany, and wrote volumes of the history of plants (created taxonomy of living things).
