Table of Contents

The Beginnings; Mesopotamia; Greek Medicine; Rome; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance; Pestilence in the Renaissance; The Age of Vesalius; The Harvey Era; The Age of Newton; The Microscope and Leeuwenhoek; The Meeting of Biology and Chemistry; Ray and the Emergence of Cell Theory; The Age of Linnaeus and the Enlightenment; Lamarck and His System; The Rise of Paleontology; Biology in the Victorian Era; Darwin and His Age; Embryology and Biochemistry in the Darwinian Era; The Age of Pasteur and the Development of the Microscope; Biology in the Twentieth Century; T. H. Morgan and the Rise of Genetics; On the Trail of DNA; Evolution and Genetic Engineering; Epilogue; Endnotes; Index

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