The science of biology has grown from the time of ancient Greeks to the present time, which has seen an explosive growth in the field, particularly in the field of molecular biology. Professor Asimov outlines the growth of biological ideas.

Issac Asimov was a american writer. He was writing the book 'short history of biology'. In 400B.C, when Hippocrates wrote a book claiming that epilepsy, the sacred disease, was a natural disorder and not a visitation of demons , the science if biology may be said to have begun. . This book is exactly what it's title implies.