1. Bowland and Morus - The New Biology
... the field into the lab, primarily in the research departments of large museums and universities. As in natural history, classification was important in understanding the internal structures of the body, but it was also important to the science of morphology, the study of form. Morphologists were materialists and welcomed Darwin's theories of evolution because it allowed them to state that the ... change from the way nature was previously studied and described. In natural history, nature was observed, studied, categorized and labeled. But the new biology took the science much deeper into ...
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