Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1992, ISBN:0801827388:
FARLEY, John. Gametes & Spores : Ideas about Sexual Reproduction 1750-1914.Baltimore and London : Johns Hopkins University Press, (1992). First Editi on. Pp (6),vii-x,(2),1-299,(1). Illustrated. Index. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "John Farley examines early scientific attempts to understand some of the most fundamental biological aspects of sexual reproduction: the nature of the substancnces liberated by the sex organs; the function of eggs, spermatozoa, and spores; the relationship of sexual to asexual reproduction; the roles of male and female in the reproductive process, ...
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