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Self-Made Things

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2/5. Jonathan Miller discusses the history of our understanding of reproduction. Both Aristotle and Galen developed theories to explain how and why organisms reproduce. Much later, when William Harvey published On The Generation of Animals in 1651, the stage was set for biologists to uncover the mechanisms that enable living things to make themselves. Producer John Watkins

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Jonathan Miller
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William Harvey
Producer:
John Watkins
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