History of Biology

Significant events in biology and organic chemistry.

A timeline from Timetoast on the History of Biology.

A history of Biology on Youtube from Monica Adtoon.

A history of biology on Youtube by Mark Smith.

Any history of biology must start with Aristotle's zoology, one of the earliest studies of the natural world and a true defining moment in scientific history.

Yale University's short history of biological sciences.

Key Dates in the History of Biology, a timeline made with Timetoast's free interactive timeline making software.

History of Biology Timeline made with Timetoast's free interactive timeline making software.

Study of living things and their vital processes. The field deals with all the physicochemical aspects of life. The modern tendency toward cross-disciplinary research and the unification.

Fermentation is a term referenced in biology and life science. Learn more about the tern fermentation at HowStuffWorks.

History - Biology is the branch of science that studies life. Learn more about biology at HowStuffWorks.

Though biology is generally regarded as a modern science with late origins in the early to mid-nineteenth century, it drew on varied traditions, practices, and areas of inquiry beginning in antiquity. Traditional histories of biology generally target two areas that merged into modern biological science: medicine and natural history.

Biology is the study of life on earth. The History of Biology however, focuses on the advent of life on earth, right from the ancient times.

History of biology including Alcmaeon and Aristotle, Influential errors of Galen, Science's siesta.

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 and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.