{"product_id":"9780465082957","title":"The Seeds of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes.  Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics:  men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from.  Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery.  These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and  a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs.  A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49777601544440,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":74.41,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780465082957-1.jpg?v=1785361486","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9780465082957","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}