M1-L1: History of Zoology

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Also known as animal science.

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Zoology

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He created the science of biology.

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Aristotle

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He attempted a comprehensive classification of animals and established some type of hierarchy of animals based on the logic of structure in his zoological works, History of Animals, Parts of Animals, and Generation of Animals.

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Aristotle

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Father of Zoology.

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Aristotle

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He wrote “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History).

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Pliny the Elder

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An encyclopedic compilation of myths and facts about celestial bodies, geography, animals and plants, metals, and stone.

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Historia Naturalis (Natural History)

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Dissected animals for his studies in human anatomy, and his works became the standard for use in medicine throughout the Middle Ages.

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Galen

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Introduced modern Western medicine with his human anatomy treatise, “De humani corporis fabrica”.

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Andreas Vesalius

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He was known for his great zoological work, Historiae animalium, which was considered as the starting-point of modern zoology.

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Conrad Gessner

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Father of Modern Zoology.

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Conrad Gessner

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In his book, “Anatomical dissertation concerning the motion of the heart and blood”, he demonstrated the circulation of blood and functions of the heart, arteries and veins.

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William Harvey

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The Dutch father-and-son team, was said to be the ones who invented the first simple and compound microscope with 3x and 9x magnifications.

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Hans and Zaccharias Janssen

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In his published book, “Micrographia” (1665), he presented the first published depiction of a microorganism.

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Robert Hooke

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Father of Cellular Biology.

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Robert Hooke

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Divided birds into land and waterfowl in which he included whales and dolphins as a special group among fishes.

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John Ray

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Discovered the role of capillaries, added to the body of information about animals.

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Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam

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Reported his discovery on bacteria and protozoa, which he called as “little animals”.

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Zoology passed through reforms provided by his Binomial System of Nomenclature, introduced in his Systema naturae that marked the beginning of the modern system of classification.

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Carolus Linnaeus

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He established many of the fundamental taxonomic groups used by modern zoologists.

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Georges Cuvier

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Together with J.B. Lamarck, he studied invertebrates and vertebrates and established the relationships of fossils to recent forms.

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Georges Cuvier

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Formulated the other component of the Cell Theory, which states that “Cell came from pre-existing cell”.

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Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow

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He discovered the nucleus in plant cells.

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Robert Brown

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Best known for his Lamarckism, a theory of evolution which says that acquired characteristics are inheritable.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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Known for his “Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection”.

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Charles Darwin

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One of the founders of ethology, used field experiments by altering the surroundings of the wasp’s burrows to observe how they go back to them after hunting.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen

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Applied ethological techniques to humanity in his bestseller “The Naked Ape”.

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Desmond Morris

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Worked and wrote the preservation of natural habitats and creatures.

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Edward O. Wilson

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Formulated the first unifying principle of biology, the Cell Theory, stating that, “The cell is the structural unit of all living things.

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Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann