 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Who • What • Where • When
What → Events •
Arts •
Communities •
Conflict •
Cultures •
Death •
Domestic •
Dynasties •
Education •
Exploration •
Garibaldi •
Health •
Industries •
Institutions •
Issues •
Kids •
Law •
Miscellaneous •
Nature •
Philosophy •
Politics •
Religion •
Science •
Sports •
Technology •
Reference
Science → Biology •
Earth •
Mathematics •
Physics •
Social
Biology → Anatomy •
Biochemistry •
Biotechnology •
Botany •
DNA •
Entomology •
Eugenics •
Evolution •
Genetics •
Human •
Medicine •
Microbiology •
Mutation •
Ornithology •
Paleontology •
Zoology
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
John Ray FRS was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the pract... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathe... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Jean-Baptiste de la Marck, often just known as "Lamarck", was a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. In the modern era, Lamarck is re... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Georges Cuvier was a renowned French naturalist and zoologist considered the founder of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology. He originated a system of zoological classification that comprised four phyla based on differences in s... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Edward Blyth was an English zoologist and pharmacist. He was one of the founders of zoology in India. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 he travelled to India to become the curator of the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among scientists and the public alike. As is evident from the letter quoted abo... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute a... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dian Fossey was an American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work th... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family inter... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
2022 © Timeline Index |
|