History of biology
HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF THE LIVING WORLD
History of Biology; Classical biology; Historian of biology; History of bio; 19th century in biology; 20th century in biology; The History of Biology
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.