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1800 |
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Karl Friedrich Burdach coins the term BIOLOGY
to denote the study of human morphology, physiology and psychology.
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1880 |
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1801 |
Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president of the United States.
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Gottfried Treviranus and Jean Baptiste de
Lamarck independently broaden the meaning of
BIOLOGY to include the study of all living things.
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1802 |
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1803 |
US buys large tract of land from France - The Louisiana Purchase.
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1804 |
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The field of comparative anatomy begins, with
the publications of Baron Georges Cuvier's Lesson in Comparative Anatomy.
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1805 |
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1806 |
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1807 |
England prohibits slave trade.
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1808 |
The US prohibits the importation of new slaves from Africa
(but the holding of existing slaves and their descendents remains
legal).
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Birth of Charles Darwin: 12 Feb 1809.
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck's theory of evolution
presented with the publication of his Philosophie
Zoologique, which emphasized the fundamental unity
of life and the capacity of species to vary.
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1809 |
Birth of Abraham Lincoln: 12 Feb 1809.
James Madison becomes the fourth president of the United States.
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1810 |
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