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The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy

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The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy

Ernst Haeckel and Joseph McCabe

543 pages~10 hr 49 min read26 chapters$4.99
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What is life, where does it begin, and what happens at death? Ernst Haeckel, the great popularizer of biology, takes on the largest questions of living matter with confidence and sweep. Cells, protoplasm, and the boundary between living and dead all come under his lens. A bold biological philosophy from a giant of science. Ask what it means to be alive.

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26 chapters

  1. 1THE WONDERS OF LIFE
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4THE WONDERS OF LIFE
  5. 5TRUTH
  6. 6LIFE
  7. 7MIRACLES
  8. 8THE SCIENCE OF LIFE
  9. 9DEATH
  10. 10PLASM
  11. 11UNITIES OF LIFE
  12. 12FORMS OF LIFE
  13. 13MONERA
  14. 14NUTRITION
  15. 15REPRODUCTION
  16. 16MOVEMENT
  17. 17SENSATION
  18. 18MENTAL LIFE

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