BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Folk Taxonomy, Evolutionary Taxonomy, Georges Cuvier

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

Document Summary

According to douglas adams, science has undergone four milestones of science that can be called the four ages of sand , corresponding with glass. The first age is the invention of the telescope (1608) which allowed us to look farther into space, learn about planetary motion and the laws of physics, etc. The second age is the one of the microscope (1678) where humanity was allowed to look closer at things and to analyze smaller things, therefore the start of biology. The third is the computer chip (1961) which allowed us to look more closely in detail and to allow us to compute much more complex things (such as the genome). Last/fourth is fibre optics (1980s) which allowed us to communicate all of this information and to bring experts together. Al-dinawari (826-896) added to theophrastus compendium of plants for medicinal purposes. Alhazen (965-1040) introduced scientific method, which is still used to today o o o o o o o.