Biology
3 inventions in this category
Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature emerged in 1753 not because Carl Linnaeus suddenly wanted to organize nature, but because the conditions aligned: global explora...
Natural selection
An island fever in `indonesia` and a long hesitation in the `united-kingdom` converged on the same unsettling claim: life does not need a designer to...
Neuron doctrine
A few blackened cells on a pale background broke one of biology's hardest visual habits. Before the late nineteenth century, many anatomists treated t...