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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Story of the Living Machine
Herbert William Conn
202 pages~4 hr 1 min read22 chapters$4.99
Treat a living body as a machine and the questions sharpen: what drives it, fuels it, repairs it, and builds a new one? Herbert Conn walks through the cell and the organism as working mechanisms, surveying the biology of his day in plain language. A lucid introduction to how life runs itself. See the machinery inside every living thing.
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22 chapters
- 1THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE
- 2A REVIEW OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF MODERN BIOLOGY IN REGARD TO THE MECHANISM WHICH CONTROLS THE PHENOMENA OF LIVING ACTIVITY BY
- 3H.W. CONN
- 4PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF GERM LIFE, EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY, THE LIVING WORLD, ETC.
- 5PREFACE.
- 6CONTENTS.
- 7LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 8THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
- 9INTRODUCTION.
- 10PART I.
- 11THE RUNNING OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
- 12CHAPTER I.
- 13IS THE BODY A MACHINE?
- 14CHAPTER II.
- 15THE CELL AND PROTOPLASM.
- 16PART II.
- 17THE BUILDING OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
- 18CHAPTER III.
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