The epic history of biology

The beginnings

Mesopotamia

Greek medicine

Rome

The Middle Ages

The Renaissance

Pestilence in the Renaissance

The age of Vesalius

The Harvey era

The age of Newton

The microscope and Leeuwenhoek

The meeting of biology and chemistry

Ray and the emergence of cell theory

The age of Linnaeus and the Enlightenment

Lamarck and his system

The rise of paleontology

Biology in the Victorian era

Darwin and his age

Embryology and biochemistry in the Darwinian era

The age of Pasteur and the development of the microscope

Biology in the twentieth century

T.H. Morgan and the rise of genetics

On the trail of DNA

Evolution and genetic engineering.