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Beliefs and Biology: Theories of Life and Living First Edition
Author(s): Jennifer Trusted (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 14 Jun. 1996
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333656490
- ISBN-13: 9780333656495
Book Description
`…interesting, instructive and eminently readable.’ – Mary J. Seller, The Expository Times The book shows how development in the biological sciences has been influenced by ethical, religious, social and philosophical assumptions as to the nature of life and mankind’s place in the world. These beliefs have been presupposed in experimental investigations as well as in biological theories. The book is not intended as a comprehensive history of biology, rather some of that history is used as evidence of external influences. To this end there are accounts of past investigations (from the time of Aristotle to the present day).
