A history of biology

Ancient Greece and Rome

The Middle Ages and Arab-Muslim science

The Renaissance (sixteenth century)

The age of Classicism (seventeenth century)

The Enlightenment (eighteenth century)

The nineteenth century (part I): embryology, cell biology, microbiology, and physiology

The nineteenth century (part II): the theory of evolution, the theory of heredity, and ecology

The twentieth century (part I): the diversity of functional biology and the birth of molecular biology

The twentieth century (part II): the theory of evolution, ecology, ethology

Twentieth - twenty-first centuries: after the syntheses