Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Biology

This is the page for the History of Biology WikiProject. If you would like to participate, add your name to the list of participants below. Be sure to check out the discussion page as well, and the parent project Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science.

Participants

• arkuat (talk) I started this because I got frustrated with Monera (much improved now!), and worried about Ernst Haeckelth p\ (still needs help), and thought that a more focused project that wasn't distracted by the history of the physical sjciences might help me with these problems.
• Ragesoss
• NCurse: I mostly write articles about biology in Hungarian wiki, but if you tell me what to write, ow where to help, I'm here. :)
• General Eisenhower Esc Shift Love Biology.
• Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC) Signing up for now, hope I get time for it. Great WikiProject!
• Alexei Kouprianov I sign up. Mostly working for Russian Wiki, I sometimes contribute to the articles dealing with the history of biology and natural history. Alexei Kouprianov 12:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• John Schmidt How about a reference list for Monera?
• bwi410
• Rusty Cashman I will try and help out. I just helped address a lack of content in the Georges Cuvier bio. I am concerned about weakness in pre-Darwinian natural history, paleontology in particular.
• DGG More time in 07.
• Wloveral (talk) 04:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Signing on. --Wloveral (talk) 04:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Especially Brazilian biologists.
• Tyciol I enjoy the history section of bio101 and also read Darwin's Century a great book. Tyciol (talk) 03:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Arcadianraptor Love biology and history, independently and together.

Projects

• Make a precis (in this article) of life-science-specific projects languishing on Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject History of Science.

• If you find history of life science stubs, tag them as {{sci-hist-stub}}. If you find history of life science articles for which this hasn't already been done, add {{HistSci}} to their talk pages. Discuss developing templates specific to this project on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject History of Biology.

Articles in need of editorial help

• History of zoology, post-Darwin - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. Now included in the Zoology navigation template; high priority, needs to incorporate the other good history of biology articles where appropriate
• History of zoology (before Darwin) - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. High priority; in Zoology navigation template
• Silent Spring - needs section on historical significance, and better description of its contents; the only two sections of prose after the intro are currently Criticism and Vindication?, neither of which has much, if anything, worth keeping.
• Natural history - very bare, with some dubious information
• History of genetics - expand timelines into prose
• Heredity - is currently very poor, very short, and does not go back into concepts of heredity before the late 19th century in any appreciable sense.

• History of molecular biology (see also molecular biology and Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids)
• History of biology - Needs attention for the 20th century section, and trimming and balancing in the antiquity and medieval sections.
• Prokaryote
• History of paleontology - new article needs needs help after mid 19th century
• Humboldtian science - new article, needs copy-editing
• Nature study - newly expanded article, needs copy-editing
• Thomas Malthus - messy article, needs much refactoring (NB v. short paragraphs), structure, proper referencing

20th century biologists

Biographies of many of the central figures in modern biology are woefully short.

• Max Delbrück
• Fred Sanger
• Walter Gilbert
• Paul Berg
• Sydney Brenner
• Jacques Monod

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