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(from Greek βίος λόγος)


Biology is the science of life.


History of the word "biology"

Formed by combining the Greek βίος (bios), meaning 'life', and λόγος (logos), meaning 'study of', the word "biology" in its modern sense seems to have been introduced independently by Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur, 1802) and by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Hydrogéologie, 1802). The word itself is sometimes said to have been coined in 1800 by Karl Friedrich Burdach, but it appears in the title of Volume 3 of Michael Christoph Hanov's Philosophiae naturalis sive physicae dogmaticae: Geologia, biologia, phytologia generalis et dendrologia, published in 1766.

History

For more information, see: History of biology, History of medicine, and History of genetics.

Major discoveries in biology include:

External links

  • [1] The American Institute of Biological Sciences (ABIBS) Virtual Library is free to all visitors

Further reading

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