Something from Nothing
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Thinning and Thinning Properties of Jiz
Aristotle noticed that when he heated semen up, it got thicker and when he cooled it down, it got thinner. Seaman was a foam, a frothy mixture of liquid and hot air which aristotle called numa. The biggest obstacle for any theory of reproduction is heritability. Aristotle had a humungous body of data about as both from his own studies and from things he'd heard or read from others. But squaring all of that stuff into one single elegant, halistic reproductive system would have been like having a square peg in a sea of round holes.
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