The Rise of Systematic Biology

By AlaD01

  • Linnaeus pre-academic observations.

    Linnaeus pre-academic observations in the fields of southern Sweden.

  • Linnaeus first published Systema Naturae.

    The following years he published Biblioteca botanica,Fundamenta botanica (1736), Genera plantarum, and Critica botanica(1737).

  • Linnaeus published Philosophia botanica.

  • Species plantarum, the greatest contribution of Linnaeus to systematics.

  • Antoine Laurent de Jussieu published Genera plantarum

    Natural system

  • Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace Theory of Evolution.

    On the Origin of Species was published on 1859.

  • Willi Hennig, developed the phylogenetic systematics or cladistics.

  • James Watson and Francis Crick discovered DNA.