Researched
Aristotle's natural history
Aristotle dissected and described hundreds of animal kinds and grouped them by shared traits, making biology a science of observation.
Open in the interactive tree →His History of Animals and Parts of Animals describe about 500 kinds of animals, the development of the chick embryo, and dolphins bearing live young. He also taught that some creatures arise from mud or rotting matter, an idea that stood until 1668.
Prerequisites
- Philosophy~585 BC
- Plato's Academy387 BC
Unlocks
- Redi refutes maggots from meat1668
- Linnaeus and classification1735Linnaeus's nested kinds descend from Aristotle's grouping of animals by shared traits