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The seeds of life : from Aristotle to Da Vinci, from sharks' teeth to frogs' pants, the long and strange quest to discover where babies come from / Edward Dolnick

This history of science chronicles the quest to understand human conception, detailing the experiments and misconceptions of early researchers. It examines how religious beliefs and social prejudices influenced the development of reproductive biology.
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