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This bibliography of biology is a list of notable works, organized by subdiscipline, on the subject of biology. Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines. Subdisciplines of biology are recognized on the basis of the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them.
== Anatomy ==
This section contains a list of works in anatomy, the study of the structure of living things.
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) (1025). The Canon of Medicine. Vesalius, Andreas (1543). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books). A landmark publication in anatomy and medicine. It is the 400th birthyear of the beautiful book which graces the lectern in front of me, the most artistic book and one of the most illuminating in the history of medicine. As Osier remarked, 1543 is a starred year in the history of science. In it appeared the two great works which inaugurated modern science, Copernicus' Revolutions of the heavenly bodies, which gave us a rational and abiding explanation of the workings of the macrocosm, the great universe, and Vesalius' Fabrica, which for the first time fully, and for the first time accurately, portrayed not only the structure but to some extent also the workings of the body of man, that mysterious spiritual animal which the Middle Ages called the microcosm or little universe. Gray, Henry (1858). Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. First published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in Great Britain in 1858, and the following year in the United States. Gray died after the publication of the 1860 second edition, at the age of 34, but his book was continued by others. In 2008, for the 150th anniversary of the first edition, the 40th edition was released.
== Biophysics ==
This section is a list of works on biophysics, an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems.
Galvani, Luigi (1791). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius. Bologna: Accademia delle Scienze. English translation: — (1955). "Commentary on the Effects of Electricity on Muscular Motion". Isis. 46 (3). Translated by Margaret Glover Foley: 305–309. doi:10.1086/348425. Galvani's researches into stimulating muscles with electricity. His theory of an "animal electric fluid" was later disproved by Alessandro Volta, but stimulated research into bioelectricity.
== Botany ==
This section is a list of works on botany, the scientific study of plant life.
Elpel, Thomas (2004). Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. Pony, Montana: HOPS Press, LLC. ISBN 978-1-892784-15-5.: Emphasizes plant family characteristics to facilitate plant identification. Used as a text at many universities and herbal schools.
== Cell biology ==
This section contains a list of works on cell biology, the study of cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death.
Hooke, Robert (1665). Micrographia: or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses (first ed.). J. Martyn and J. Allestry.
== Ecology ==
This section contains a list of works in ecology, the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment.
Warming, Eugenius. Plantesamfund – Grundtræk af den økologiske Plantegeografi (in Danish). 335 pp. Copenhagen: P.G. Philipsens Forlag. Published in English as — (1909). Oecology of Plants: An Introduction to the Study of Plant Communities. (English edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Turned descriptive faunistic/floristic biogeography into a new discipline, ecology. Based on his botanical investigations from Tropics to tundra, Warmings aimed to explain how similar environmental challenges (drought, flooding, cold, salt, herbivory etc.) were solved by plants in similar ways everywhere in the World, despite the different descent of species on different continents. Gause, Georgii Frantsevich (1936). The struggle for existence. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins. Gause formulated his Competitive exclusion principle, through experiments involving paramecia. The principle holds that no two species can co-exist for long if they have to compete for highly similar resources. This outcome has two preconditions: 1) panmixis of individuals of competing species, 2) the environment is homogeneous in time and space. These conditions may be met by aquatic microorganisms grown under laboratory conditions. However, in most real-world biotic communities, both conditions are likely to be violated from moderately to strongly. Due to its simplicity and intuitiveness, Gause's Competitive exclusion principle has had a great impact on subsequent ecological thinking.
== Evolutionary biology ==
This section contains a list of works on evolution, the change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations.