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Biology - the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology, the study of animal life, and botany, the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these sciences include cytology (the study of cells), histology (the study of tissues), anatomy or morphology, physiology, and embryology (the study of the embryonic development of an individual animal or plant). Also

12 of the Best Books and Articles on: Biology History

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The Epic History of Biology » Read Now
by Anthony Serafini. 395 pgs.

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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance » Read Now
by Ernst Mayr. 974 pgs.

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The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology » Read Now
by Lily E. Kay. 304 pgs.

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This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s. Research undertaken during this period, with its focus on genetic structure and function, endowed scientists...
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This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s. Research undertaken during this period, with its focus on genetic structure and function, endowed scientists with then unprecedented power over life. By viewing the new biology as both a scientific and cultural enterprise, Lily E. Kay shows that the growth of molecular biology was a result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their sponsors to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society. She analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering this vision by focusing on two key institutions: Caltech and its sponsor, the Rockefeller Foundation. Her study explores a number of vital, sometimes controversial topics, among them the role of private power centers in shaping scientific agenda, and the political dimensions of "pure" research. It also advances a sobering argument: the cognitive and social groundwork for genetic engineering and human genome projects was laid by the American architects of molecular biology during these early decades of the project. This book will be of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and the general reader alike.
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The Coil of Life: The Story of the Great Discoveries in the Life Sciences » Read Now
by Ruth Moore. 418 pgs.

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...AHEAD AT A FEW rare moments in the history of a science, understanding takes a long...biophysics, genetics, cytology, embryology, biology, physiology. Only now, with the...
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A History of Biology to about the Year 1900: A General Introduction to the Study of Living Things » Read Now
by Charles Singer. 580 pgs.

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...A History of Biology Charles Darwin 1809-82 A History OF Biology to about the year 1900...biologists. It thus remains a history but ends with the nineteenth...a general...
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The History of Biological Theories » Read Now
by E. J. Hatfield, Emanuel Radl. 408 pgs.

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Biology and Language: An Introduction to the Methodology of the Biological Sciences, Including Medicine » Read Now
by J. H. Woodger. 364 pgs.

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...direct help in improving the language of biology. It also deals with an aspect of the...chemistry is concerned the verdict of history has been on the side of Berzelius...
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Classics of Biology » Read Now
by August Pi Suner. 337 pgs.

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...must be in existence. Throughout the ages Biology has been vitalistic. Looking back through the history of physiological knowledge we see the continuous...most important...
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Genesis: The Evolution of Biology » Read Now
by Jan Sapp. 364 pgs.

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This book presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, and general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary...
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This book presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, and general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin, Wallace, etc., through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of complete microbial genomes. The book as a whole will serve as a good introduction to the rise of modern biology over the past two centuries.
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Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1910s-1970s » Read Now
by Soraya De Chadarevian, Harmke Kamminga. 308 pgs.

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What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery » Read Now
by Francis Crick. 182 pgs.

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Thomas Huxley: Making the "Man of Science" » Read Now
by Paul White. 205 pgs.

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This book examines the persona of the "man of science" in the Victorian period as it was shaped by Thomas Huxley, the leading British naturalist and notorious popularizer of Darwinian theory. It demonstrates how the scientific practitioner was regarded as a moral and religious figure; simultaneously...
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This book examines the persona of the "man of science" in the Victorian period as it was shaped by Thomas Huxley, the leading British naturalist and notorious popularizer of Darwinian theory. It demonstrates how the scientific practitioner was regarded as a moral and religious figure; simultaneously considered to be the epitome of the secular, professional scientist. Breaking with traditional biographies, this fascinating portrait treats Huxley as the consummate British "man of science" and reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.
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