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Science was not always the dominant way of knowing, as we see in this spirited exploration of how human beings over the millennia have sought to understand the phenomena of life. Biologists have gradually solved some of the great mysteries, beginning with the investigations of Aristotle and the Greeks, continuing through the experiments and theories of Darwin and his contemporaries, and culminating in the research of geneticists and other specialists of this century. This book provides not only a cultural history of biology but also a good introduction to the procedures and values of science.