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- History [r]: Study of past human events based on written documents. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
- History of Science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
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- Alfred Russel Wallace [r]: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independent of Darwin. [e]
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Ernst Haeckel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Mayr [r]: (1904-2005) German biologist and major proponent of evolutionary philosophy. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
- Marcello Malpighi [r]: (1628-1694), Italian scientist who creatively exploited the early microscope as Galileo did the early telescope, discoverer of the capillaries, and regarded as the founder of microscopic anatomy (histology). [e]
- Molecule [r]: An aggregate of two or more atoms in a definite arrangement held together by chemical bonds. [e]
