BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Physicalism, High Middle Ages, Infusoria

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Lecture 1 & 2 - major events in the history of biology: predarwinian biology. Al-dinawari continued the work of theophrastus of cataloguing plants and added new plants from the middle east. Alhazen first described the scientific method. Al-jahiz proposed the struggle for existence, the food chain and evolution. Aristotle student of plato who studied animals and tried to organize all living and non- living things in the scala naturae or ladder of life or great chain of being that was god. Artificial taxonomy classification of items with no relevance to biology, a prominent and easily observed feature is taken as the mark of resemblance or dissemblance, short descriptions by plato, aristotle, theophrastus. Avicenna added to hippocratic corpus the middle eastern traditions (summarized. Binomen name given to every living organism consisting of two part. Binomial nomenclature the naming of species with a two-part scientific name, the first indicating the genus and the second indicating the species.