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Title Seeds of life : from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from shark's teeth to frog's pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from / Edward Dolnick
Imprint New York : Basic Books, [2017]

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Rosengård:Vuxen Facklitteratur (600-629)  612 engelska    DUE 24-04-22  ---
Descript ix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "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"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and index
Subject Human reproduction -- History
Human reproduction -- Mythology
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Människan -- fortplantning
Människan -- befruktning
Bebisar
Classmark 612.6
ISBN/ISSN 9780465082957
9780465094967 (ebook)
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