Category: History
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Origin of the Term;
The term “Biology”, in the modern sense, was introduced through the works of Michael Christoph Hanow in 1766. However, it was introduced independently four more times through the works of Thomas Beddoes (1799), Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1802) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1802). Before the term biology was adapted, other terms existed which…
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Greek Period.
The origin of biology as a science seeking knowledge of living things for its own sake, rather than for the sake of contributing to human well-being, is found above all in the works of aristotle (c. 384–322 b.c.). Aristotle founded biology as a school and was the foremost biologist of antiquity.
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