Pre-Owned The Egg and Sperm Race : The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth (Other) 9781416526001

from NellieMc

If you enjoy the history of science, this is an excellent book. It covers fresh territory, highlighting especially a group of relatively unknown 17th century thinkers who tried to understand "generation", i.e. reproduction, which, given a complete lack of understanding of genetics, was especially...

from JBD1

Quite a well done popular history of the significant (if not complete) progress made toward the understanding of animal reproduction in the seventeenth century, by such characters as Steno, Swammerdam, van Horne, de Graaf, Redi, Leeuwenhoek and others. Cobb writes for a popular audience, ably dis...

from jlbrownn23

A very enjoyable book - shows you not to take human knowledge for granted and also gives an important story from possibly the greatest era in science. It is somewhat surprising how recently we figured out most of the story on "where babies come from", and how much of it was worked out over a shor...

from jlbrownn23

A very enjoyable book - shows you not to take human knowledge for granted and also gives an important story from possibly the greatest era in science. It is somewhat surprising how recently we figured out most of the story on "where babies come from", and how much of it was worked out over a shor...