Timeline: Life sciences
| Years: c. 3 billion years ago - 2010 | Subject: Science and technology, Life Sciences |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737329 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 3 billion years ago | Go to endosymbiont theory in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1 billion years ago | Go to Ediacaran fossils in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500 million years ago | Go to Ordovician in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 400 million years ago | Go to Psilophytales in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 350 million years ago | |
| c. 340 million years ago | |
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| c. 225 million years ago | |
| c. 170 million years ago | |
| c. 150 million years ago | Go to Archaeopteryx in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 125 million years ago | Go to Archaeopteryx in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 65 million years ago | |
| c. 45 million years ago | |
| c. 15 million years ago | Go to Simiiformes in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 6 million years ago | Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.4 million years ago | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.2 million years ago | Go to Australopithecine in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 million years ago | Go to Homo in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 570 BCE | Go to Anaximander (611–c.547 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 380 BCE | Go to four humours in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 300 BCE | The Greek author Theophrastus writes On the History of Plants, the earliest surviving work on botany Go to Theophrastus (c. 372 bc–287 bc) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1530 | Go to Brunfels, Otto (c.1489–1534) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1560 | Go to physic garden noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1596 | Go to Bauhin, Gaspard (1550–1624) in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1661 | Go to Malpighi, Marcello in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1674 | See this event in other timelines: |
| 1677 | See this event in other timelines: |
| 1686 | Go to Ray, John (1607–1705) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1735 | Go to Linnaeus, Carolus (1707–78) in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1809 | Go to Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1811 | Go to Anning, Mary (1799–1847) in A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1812 | Go to Cuvier, Georges, Baron (1769–1832) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1831 | Go to Beagle, HMS in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1835 | Go to Dujardin, Félix (1801–1860) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1836 | Go to Beagle, HMS in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1843 | Go to Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807–1873) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1851 | Go to Apiculture in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1854 | Go to Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Snow, John (1813–1858) in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1856 | Go to Neanderthal man in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1857 | Go to Elysium in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1858 | Go to Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1859 | Go to Darwin, Charles (1809–82) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1865 | Go to Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1883 | Go to eugenics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1903 | Go to Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936) in A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to syphilis in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Starling, Ernest Henry (1866–1927) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1906 | Go to Bateson, William (1861–1926) in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Landsteiner, Karl (1868–1943) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866–1945) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1914 | Go to Passenger Pigeon in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1922 | Go to Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891–1941) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1925 | Go to Evolution and Creation Science in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1927 | Go to Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881–1955) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1935 | Go to Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903–1989) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1937 | Go to Krebs cycle in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1948 | Go to Skinner box in The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1949 | Go to Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982) in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1953 | Go to double helix in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1963 | Go to Carson, Rachel (1907–1964) in The Oxford Companion to United States History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1983 | Go to Montagnier, Luc (1932–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1984 | Go to Jeffreys, Sir Alec John (1950–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1985 | Go to Human Genome Project in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1986 | Go to bovine spongiform encephalopathy in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1990 | Go to Goodall, Jane (1934–) in A Dictionary of Scientists (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1994 | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1996 | Go to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Concise Medical Dictionary (8 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Dolly a sheep (q.v.) in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1999 | Go to human genome project in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2000 | Go to Human Genome Project in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2010 | Go to genome in A Dictionary of Biomedicine (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
