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Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms
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Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi discovers the capillaries, thus completing the evidence for the circulation of the blood
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argues in Zoological Philosophy that creatures can inherit acquired characteristics
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French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds
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An American clergyman, L.L. Langstroth, discovers the 'bee space', which becomes a standard feature of the modern beehive
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cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually.
