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The Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, also based in the USA, was, and remains, a major initiative. One of its noteworthy features was the publication of green, blue and yellow versions of a high school biology course, focusing on ecology, molecular biology and cellular biology respectively.
- Evolutionary History
- Studies in Environment and History
- Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have become, however, probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in pop-ulations of other species has probably been the most important force shaping human hi...
Editors Donald Worster, University of Kansas J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University
Beverly Rathcke planted the seed of this book in a lecture she gave in an ecology class during my first semester in graduate school. She told us about cotton farmers who tried to control an insect pest by spraying an insecticide. This strategy worked for a while, but then a couple of puzzling things happened. The first was that farmers found themse...
are harmful (because they gobble up crops), but other insect species are beneficial (because they kill the insects that eat the crops). A children’s rhyme supplies an analogy. In the house that Jack built, Jack was like a farmer. The malt in the house that Jack built was like a crop. The rats that ate the malt in the house that Jack built resembled...
owe many people debts for making this book possible. Beverly Rathcke and John Vandermeer, cochairs of my PhD committee at the Univer-sity of Michigan, taught me about the role of human beings in ecology and evolution. I will always be grateful to them and to Earl Werner for encouraging me to write a history-oriented dissertation in a biology depart...
This article traces the history of biology as a school subject and discusses some of the developments in the subject in post-apartheid South Africa. A debate that has characterized the history of the subject is whether it should be a science of life.
- Lesley Le Grange
With the right perspective and the right kind of questions, the history of biology can offer instructive insights for fundamental theoretical problems, for the sometimes difficult relations between biology and society, and even offer a glimpse of half-forgotten knowledge.
- Willem Halffman
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS AND SYSTEMATICS – Vol. I – History of Biology - Alberto M. Simonetta ©Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) employed his skills in a number of rather advanced experiments aimed at improving the understanding of physiology. His studies on the nervous system were unsurpassed until the eighteenth century.
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Oct 31, 2023 · History of Biological Science. Although modern biology is a relatively recent development, sciences related to and included within it have been studied since ancient times. Natural philosophy was studied as early as the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indian subcontinent, and China.
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Evolution is taught in schools, colleges and universities (it has also been included in the UK National Curriculum for Primary schools) and its central role in the study of the Life Sciences is now well understood.
