The Epic History of Biology

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Beginnings....Pages 1-7
Mesopotamia....Pages 9-13
Greek Medicine....Pages 15-44
Rome....Pages 45-53
The Middle Ages....Pages 55-58
The Renaissance....Pages 59-68
Pestilence in the Renaissance....Pages 69-74
The Age of Vesalius....Pages 75-88
The Harvey Era....Pages 89-102
The Age of Newton....Pages 103-109
The Microscope and Leeuwenhoek....Pages 111-116
The Meeting of Biology and Chemistry....Pages 117-124
Ray and the Emergence of Cell Theory....Pages 125-137
The Age of Linnaeus and the Enlightenment....Pages 139-169
Lamarck and His System....Pages 171-184
The Rise of Paleontology....Pages 185-194
Biology in the Victorian Era....Pages 195-207
Darwin and His Age....Pages 209-231
Embryology and Biochemistry in the Darwinian Era....Pages 233-248
The Age of Pasteur and the Development of the Microscope....Pages 249-268
Biology in the Twentieth Century....Pages 269-289
T. H. Morgan and the Rise of Genetics....Pages 291-330
On the Trail of DNA....Pages 331-362
Evolution and Genetic Engineering....Pages 363-370
Epilogue....Pages 371-372
Back Matter....Pages 373-395