Where Does Life Come From? Early Ideas About Life’s Origins
Imagine cracking open a rotten log and seeing maggots wriggling inside, or noticing frogs suddenly appearing in a drying pond. For centuries, naturalists and philosophers observed these kinds of phenomena and asked: Where does life […]
More Than Food: How Farming and Animals First Revealed the Rules of Inheritance
As humans transitioned from nomadic wanderers to cultivating the land and tending herds, they engaged with unintentional experiments. You might envision fields of early grains swaying in the breeze or small flocks of the first […]
Biology 101: Our Earliest Steps in Understanding Life
Let’s think back for a minute. Way back. Not just to how people take things for granted nowadays, but to a time when humans first looked around at the world and tried to make sense […]