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Title: The Seeds of Life
Author: Edward Dolnick
Narrator: Ben Sullivan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-17
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology
Summary:
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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