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The history of zoology before Charles Darwin 's 1859 theory of evolution traces the organized study of the animal kingdom from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of zoology as a single coherent field arose much later, systematic study of zoology is seen in the works of Aristotle and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
In 1859, Charles Darwin placed the whole theory of organic evolution on a new footing. Darwin's discovery documented a process by which organic evolution can occur, and provided observational evidence that it had done so. This changed the attitudes of most exponents of the scientific method.
Charles Darwin's 1859 publication On the Origin of Species revolutionised zoology. 1859. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, explaining the mechanism of evolution by natural selection and founding the field of evolutionary biology. Founding of Copenhagen Zoo. 1864. Louis Pasteur disproves the spontaneous generation of cellular ...
Summary. Zoology, the study of the animal kingdom, is no longer seen as a coherent branch of science. The specialization of the twentieth century has seen zoology’s territory divided among a host of separate disciplines.
Great natural scientists, such as Konrad Gesner (1516-1565), recognized as the father of zoology, developed the field as a scientific inquiry. Other investigators, such as Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) and Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), contributed accurate observations of animals.
384-322 b.c.: Aristotle. The foundation of zoology as a science. Although this pioneer zoologist and philosopher cannot be appraised by modern standards, there is scarcely a major subdivision of zoology to which he did not make some contribution.
History of zoology since 1859. Published 2015. Biology, History. Charles Darwin gave new direction to morphology and physiology, by uniting them in a common biological theory: the theory of organic evolution. The result was a reconstruction of the classification… Expand. waybuilder.net. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite. 15 References.
