Stories
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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Catalogue
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Heat and life; the development of the theory of animal heat / [Everett Mendelsohn].
Mendelsohn, Everett.Date: 1964- Books
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Letters on philosophical subjects; particularly the creation, the deluge, vegetation, &c. The powers producing these operations are here shewn to be heat, cold, air and water. Since the edition of these letters printed at Plymouth, the late experiments in the new chymistry have confirmed the above theory. These Experiments prove, that Heat and Light, together with Oxygen or Cold, are the Powers which carry on both Animal and Vegetable Life: Light, Heat, Vital Air, and inflammable Gas, are thereby proved to be substances of the first class, and approach nearest to simplicity.
Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798.Date: 1794- Books
An inaugural dissertation on the production of animal heat ... / by Lyman Spalding.
Spalding, Lyman, 1775-1821.Date: 1797- Books
A philosophical inquiry into the cause of animal heat : with incidental observations on several phisiological and chymical questions, connected with the subject / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D.
Leslie, Patrick Dugud, 1750?-1783.Date: 1778
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Views upon the statics of the human chest, animal heat, and determinations of blood to the head / by Julius Jeffreys.
Jeffreys, Julius.Date: 1843