"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description.
Life is the most basic and fundamental fact of our existence and yet remains one of the greatest and most impenetrable mysteries. This enthralling survey of biology contains the riches of awe-inspiring discoveries and a rare glimpse into biologists' working methods.
An encyclopedia of science and technology covering the origins and development of living things, including humans, and discusses the structures and processes in living things that make life possible.
Photographs, illustrations, and simple text describe the importance of single-celled life forms, where they are found, and specific examples of their life cycles.
