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The Egg and Sperm Race - The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Egg and Sperm Race - The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth (Paperback, New Ed)
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Where do we come from? For thousands of years we really had no clue
how living things were created -- great thinkers like Aristotle and
Plato had attempted to explain what became known as the problem of
'generation', but neither really had the tools or the insight to
solve the mystery. The result was a wealth of weird and wonderful
ideas about the components necessary to create new life -- blood,
'vapours', strange pulses in the air. It was also widely accepted
that animals could breed different species; the notion that two
sheep can only make another sheep is a surprisingly modern idea.
But all this confusion changed in a flurry of discovery in the
mid-seventeenth century. In just a decade, a group of young
scientists in Europe established the existence first of the human
egg and then of the human sperm. At last, the building blocks were
in place -- although, in one of the great ironies of science, it
would be another 150 years before someone worked out how
fertilisation actually took place. Focusing on the personalities
and rivalries of this extraordinary period, Matthew Cobb has shed
new light not just on an under-reported story of science but on our
very nature -- and how little we still know about one of the
greatest miracles of Nature.
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