Biology, the study of life, is a science whose roots date back many years. Many important people contributed to Greek scientific thought and discoveries. Biology, a very vast and interesting topic, was studied by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Pliny, and Galen. These men were among the main researchers of Greek biology who contributed many ideas, theories, and discoveries to science. Some of their discoveries were observations, descriptions, and classifications of the various forms of plants and animal life. Other discussions in biology were natural selection and zoology.
All living things were the basic concern of biology.
Greek biologists were interested in how living things began,
how they developed, how they functioned, and where they were found.
These sorts of questions that ran through the biologists' minds are
exactly how they began to discover the basics of life. At such
an early time, about 300 B.C., science was just beginning to enter
the minds of the Greeks. Aristotle, a Greek biologist, made contributions of his own to science. However, around 300 B.C. there was much more to be discovered, which enabled other scientists to add knowledge to the discoveries of Aristotle, during and after his time.
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