1801: "Biology" coined
 

Duden 103: "In 1801 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck introduced the term biology into the French language"

> from Barbara Duden's Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn (1993)

> tagged with #timeline, #biology

> created January 24, 2026 at 8:29:02 AM


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