Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Masana falsafa na pre-Socratic sun yi tambayoyi da yawa game da rayuwa amma sun samar da ilimin da ya dace da ilimin halitta na musamman - kodayake ƙoƙarin atomists don bayyana rayuwa a cikin sharuddan jiki kawai zai sake dawowa lokaci-lokaci ta hanyar tarihin ilmin halitta. Koyaya, ka'idodin likitanci na Hippocrates da mabiyansa, musamman ma'anar ba'a, suna da tasiri mai ɗorewa. Masanin falsafa Aristotle shine mafi mashahuri masanin rayuwar duniya daga zamanin d ̄ a. Kodayake aikinsa na farko a falsafar halitta ya kasance mai zurfi, rubuce-rubucen ilimin halittu na Aristotle na baya sun kasance mafi kwarewa, suna mai da hankali kan kwayoyin halitta da kuma bambancin rayuwa. Ya yi la'akari da yanayi da yawa, musamman dabi'u da halaye na tsire-tsire da dabbobi a duniya da ke kewaye da shi, wanda ya ba da hankali sosai ga rarraba su. A cikin duka, Aristotle ya rarraba nau'in dabbobi 540, kuma ya rarraba akalla 50. Ya yi imanin cewa dalilai na hankali, dalilai na yau da kullun, suna jagorantar duk ayyukan halitta. Aristotle, da kusan dukkanin masana na Yammacin duniya bayan shi har zuwa karni na 18, sun yi imanin cewa an tsara halittu a cikin sikelin kammala wanda ya tashi daga tsire-tsire har zuwa ga mutane: scala naturae ko Babban Sarkar Kasancewa. Maigidan Aristotle a Lyceum, Theophrastus, ya rubuta jerin littattafai game da tsire-tsire - Tarihin Tsire-tsire - wanda ya tsira a matsayin mafi muhimmanci ga gudunmawar zamanin d ̄ a ga tsire-tsire, har ma a tsakiyar zamanai. Yawancin sunayen Theophrastus sun tsira har zuwa zamani, kamar carpos don 'ya'yan itace, da pericarpion don jirgin ruwa na iri. Dioscorides ya rubuta littafin magunguna mai suna De Materia Medica, wanda ya kwatanta tsire-tsire kusan 600 da kuma yadda ake amfani da su wajen magani. Pliny the Elder, a cikin Tarihinsa na Halitta, ya tattara irin wannan bayanin na encyclopaedic na abubuwan da ke cikin yanayi, gami da asusun tsirrai da dabbobi da yawa. Wasu 'yan malamai a zamanin Helenanci a ƙarƙashin Ptolemies - musamman Herophilus na Chalcedon da Erasistratus na Chios - sun gyara aikin ilimin lissafin Aristotle, har ma suna yin...  Tambaya: Wane ne ya ɗauki matsayin Aristotle?
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