Biological Evolution and History of Biology

The teaching aims to clarify how the scientific revolution has reached full maturity only with the emergence of mechanicism and determinism in biology. More specifically, how the overcoming of vitalistic, animistic and teleological concepts was achieved in biology only after the affirmation of Darwinian thought.

At the end of the teaching, the student will acquire basic knowledge in evolutionary biology; knowledge on the development of evolutionary thought in the period between the beginning of the 19th century and the end of the 20th century; elements on the history of twentieth-century biology, with particular reference to the birth and development of genetics and molecular biology.