Scienti Flashcards
is best known as one of the most prominent philosophers of all time. He was also an esteemed student of Plato and later became Alexander The Great’s teacher. Although less known as a zoologist,
He proposed that the animal kingdom should be classified as blooded and non-blooded animals along with its respective sub-classifications. The blooded animals are further divided into four-footed, young-bearing, egg-laying animals, fish, and birds. The non-blooded animals are sub-categorized as insects, mollusks, and crabs
Aristotle
was a famous botanist, physician, and zoologist who is considered to be the father of modern taxonomy.
he classified an extraordinary number of animals that he collected on his own
One of his most prominent works Systema Naturae
Carl Linnaeus
This English scientist is best known for his groundbreaking book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
Before Darwin, he was the one who came up with his own theory of natural selection. It was his work that influenced Darwin and his Theory of Evolution. He is regarded as the father of biogeography due to his research on the basin of the river Amazon.
Alfred Russel Wallace
is an anthropologist and naturalist famous for her decades-long study of chimpanzees in Tanzania. She is considered to be a world-renown expert on chimpanzees in general and held the role of UN’s Messenger of Peace.
Jane Morris Goodall
This American national was a colleague of Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas (who studied orangutans) while working under Louis Leakey, a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist.
She was known as Leakey’s Angel. She was sent to Rwandan forests to study gorillas, which she did for almost two decades.
Dian Fossey
was an Australian Crocodile Hunter made famous across the world on account of a TV series.
In 2006, on the set of a documentary called the Ocean’s Deadliest, he was stung by a Stingray and consequently died.
Stephen Robert Irwin
is best known for his collaboration with BBC on the natural history documentary series encompassed under the title The Life Collection.
It is an impressive and extensive study of plant and animal life on our planet.
His positive contribution to the field of zoology is both undeniable and ongoing.
David Attenborough
started as a botanist, but after he was given an invitation to join the Jardin des Plantes, he became a zoologist.
He is best known for advocating the theory of inheritance of acquired characters along with the tree of life.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
, a German zoologist postulated cell theory in 1839 from his detailed study of the animal tissue.
The contributions of M.J. Schleiden on the structure of plant tissues influenced his idea greatly. The cells were regarded as the structural units of a living body and tissues were made up of cells. He first used the term ‘Cell theory’ and presented it to the scientific world
Theodor Schwann
