The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- The seeds of life : from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- from Aristotle to da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- Edward Dolnick
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- Seeds of life
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- from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from sharks teeth to frogs pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from
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- trueScientists
- trueConception
- trueExperiments
- HISTORY -- Social History
- History
- trueHuman anatomy
- trueHuman reproduction
- Human reproduction
- Human reproduction -- History
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Mythology
- Human reproduction -- Social aspects
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- trueReligion and science
- SCIENCE -- History
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | General
- trueScience -- Methodology
- trueScientific discoveries
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- eng
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- "Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes. Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from"--
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- non fiction
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