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Aristotle's Biology

In Our Time: Science

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Mito: The First Biologist

There was quite a bit of interest before him in the phenomenon of life. A lot of it was sort of in a medical context, so people would be examining things like reproduction or diseases from that point of view. But he very much wanted to go beyond that and ask the why. So there were all these pre-discessors in place. He accuses them of having failed to investigate purposes and ends.

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