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Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950
- The following bibliography and full-text archive is designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies. The subjects involved touch on fields ranging from ecology, conservation, systematics and physical geography, to evolutionary biology, cultural biogeography, paleobiology, and bioclimatology--but have in common a relevance to the study of geographical distribution and diversity.
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/
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Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Images
- This collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus. A selection of these prints, engravings, and photographs is reproduced on this site.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/smith/index.html
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Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)
- Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and evolutionist. He was one of the founders of the Neo- Lamarckian school of evolutionary thought. This school believed that changes in developmental (embryonic) timing, not natural selection, was the driving force of evolution. In 1867, Cope suggested that most changes in species occured by coordinated additions to the ontogeny of all the individuals in a species.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html
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Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
- As a naturalist, Darwin formulated one of the first formal theories on evolution in Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794-1796). He also presented his evolutionary ideas in verse, in particular in the posthumously published poem The Temple of Nature. Although he did not come up with natural selection, he did discuss ideas that his grandson elaborated on sixty years later, such as how life evolved from a single common ancestor, forming "one living filament".
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin.html
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Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
- Ernst Haeckel, much like Herbert Spencer, was always quotable, even when wrong. Although best known for the famous statement "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", he also coined many words commonly used by biologists today, such as phylum, phylogeny, and ecology. On the other hand, Haeckel also stated that "politics is applied biology", a quote used by Nazi propagandists.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/haeckel.html
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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
- Without a doubt, Georges Cuvier possessed one of the finest minds in history. Almost single-handedly, he founded vertebrate paleontology as a scientific discipline and created the comparative method of organismal biology, an incredibly powerful tool. It was Cuvier who firmly established the fact of the extinction of past lifeforms. He contributed an immense amount of research in vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and paleontology, and also wrote and lectured on the history of science.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cuvier.html
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
- 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his Historie Naturelle, a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, wrestled with the similarities of humans and apes and even talked about common ancestry of Man and apes. Although Buffon believed in organic change, he did not provide a coherent mechanism for such changes. He thought that the environment acted directly on organisms through what he called "organic particles".
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/buffon2.html
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Georgius Agricola (1494-1555)
- Georg Bauer, better known by the Latin version of his name Georgius Agricola, is considered the founder of geology as a discipline. His work paved the way for further systematic study of the Earth and of its rocks, minerals, and fossils. He made fundamental contributions to mining geology and metallurgy, mineralogy, structural geology, and paleontology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agricola.html
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Gregor Mendel (1823-1884)
- brief biography.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html
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History of Genetics
- Professor Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth College, maintains a web site of useful resources on the history of genetics.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bio70/
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