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The Seeds of Life (Hardcover)
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The Seeds of Life (Hardcover)
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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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