How long have scientists noticed species diversity?

Question

Specific scientists?

Answer 1

always...i dont think they ever thought an elepahnt and a rose were the same thing or not diverse .

Answer 2

I think individual scientists have always known about species diversity, but they just didn't make much of an effort to study it in greater detail... until Charles Darwin. For all we know, there might have been earlier scientists who did research on species diversity, but they may have not been very well known, or they may have been from China, Middle East or India...

Answer 3

Actually the first KNOWN records of the knowledge of species diversity took place in ancient Greek times when philosopers such as Aristotle noticed that plants and animals were obviously of different "kingdoms"...since then, we have added to those kingdoms to eventually lead up to the 6 main known kingdoms at this time. So we're talking about well over 2000 years ago.

Answer 4

Ancient men knew about species diversity, not just scientist. It was Carl Linnaeus who introduced the binomial system to classify organisms.

Answer 5

About since 1859, when Charles Darwin published it. I mean, it was probably before that, even stretching to the Greek times, but that was the first time it entered into mainstream.