The Contributions of Naturalist Fritz Müller to the History of Science and Biology Teaching

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Flavia Pacheco Alves de Souza
Andrea Paula dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky

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Fritz Müller (1822-1897), a German naturalist who lived in Brazil in the 19th century, corresponded with Charles Darwin (1809-1882) for seventeen years, and is known in traditional historiography as the ‘Brazilian who corresponded with Darwin’. In this work, we realized that Müller, from a simple ‘corresponding’ and defender of Darwinian ideas, should be regarded as a researcher, in partnership with Darwin and frequent dialogue with the British scholar, helped to establish the theories of development in the 19th century. In this sense, we hereby present a biographical trajectory of Müller in order to contribute with a contemporary historiographical vision for the teaching of biology in the twenty-first century.

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Alves de Souza, F. P., & dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky, A. P. (2015). The Contributions of Naturalist Fritz Müller to the History of Science and Biology Teaching. Journal of Biology Education, 18(1), (pp. 9-17). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v18.n1.22451
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Alves de Souza, F. P., & dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky, A. P. (2015). The Contributions of Naturalist Fritz Müller to the History of Science and Biology Teaching. Journal of Biology Education, 18(1), (pp. 9-17). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v18.n1.22451