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- *Aristotle; I may be wrong, but I've always been taught that Aristotle was a natural scientist and philosopher who happened to investigate plants and animals. --maveric149
- Yes, that's a fair argument. However, that far back, the terms aren't all that meaningful in some cases. Was Euclid a computer scientist? --Robert Merkel
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- I would argue for including Aristotle here, because his thoughts on living things (even if mostly wrong) were quite influential for many centuries. If you read one of the excellent books by Ernst Mayr about evolutionary theory, you will often see him go back all the way to Aristotle to explain a concept.
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- Arguably, somebody who "investigates plants and animals" is a biologist, even before the term existed. That doesn't mean that he is only a biologist, of course. Aristotle's philosophy was much more infuential. AxelBoldt
Obviously, I need to do a bit more reseach on this to see what Aristotle wrote on the subject. --maveric149
[edit] What is the average salary of a biologist?
Please tell me.
I wanna be a biologist someday.I know nothing about it but I'm interested to it.
- It depends what country you're in, and what area of biology you wish to study. The earnings of scientists generally aren't particularly high, you'd probably want to be a lawyer or engineer etc. if you were in it for the money, though some areas of biology (like Medicine) can pay quite well. Of course, it also depends on what you end up doing with your qualifications. Richard001 07:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] biology
how many years do you have to go to college?
i really need to know so i can write a paper on biology.
about 4 extra years of study to earn your degrees needed, which vary depending on what kind of biologist
[edit] botanists?
Botany is a sub-topic of biology, yes? So would it be safe to say that botanists are biologists? I mean, biology is just the study of life, yes? Ormewood (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
