Science has made enormous strides to get to where it is today. Over the centuries, biology has developed through a focus on medicine and natural history, to great scientific advances such as the theory of evolution, the classification of living organisms, and the decoding of every strand of DNA in the human body. Biology is the study of life and all living organisms. The first known biologists were Hippocrates of Kas and Galen of Pergamon, who aided in the understanding of anatomy and physiology. Philosophy is the study of the basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience. Aristotle was not only a great philosopher, but also the world's first biologist, and he set the standard for every scientist who came after him. “Aristotle was born in 384 BC in a small town called Stagirus in Macedonia, part of what is now modern day Greece. His mother's name was Phaestis, whose family was very wealthy. Aristotle's father was a young doctor from name Nicomachus, who traveled the countryside, treating patients who needed treatment His father began to spend more time in Macedonia before Aristotle ...