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Crash Course History of Science #19: Biology Before Darwin

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You've probably heard of Charles Darwin, but how did scientists before him form their theories about life, evolution, and extinction? Learn how different people in the seventeenth and eighteenth century tried to answer the question - "what is life?" in this video. [12:50]

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aristotle, charles darwin, classification, evolution, extinction
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binomial system, biology before darwin, carl linnaeus, catastrophism, classifying organisms, crash course history of science, epigenetics, great chain of being, lamarck, natural history, transformists, pre-darwin evolutionary theory
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