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Here we look at early ideas of biology, how a level of reductionism developed as man and gods became separate. The scientists that forged a science of biology and the part that botany played in delineating chromosomes. Introducing the ideas of experimental organisms and Gregor Mendel. Development of ideas that the cell was fundamental and then more than just a bag of water. Cells did things; they even seemed to be fundamental to all living things, but microanatomy was slow to develop in the wake of big hypotheses.
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Wall, W.J. (2016). Background to the Hunt for the Human Chromosome Number. In: The Search for Human Chromosomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26336-6_1
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