The Science of Life
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The Science of Life is nine books in three volumes written by Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells, edited by H. G. Wells and published by The Waverley Publishing Company Ltd in 1929, describing all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s.
A 1934 Literary Guild printing, comprising 1,514 pages, includes all nine books in a single volume.
Of historic interest is Book Three - The Incontrovertible Fact of Evolution, comprising five chapters; I The Fact to be Proved, II The Evidence in the Rocks, The Evidence from Plant and Animal Structure, IV The Evidence from the Variation and Distribution of Living Things, V The Evolution of Man. Considering that this was written less than five years from the Scopes Trial, it is a bold, comprehensive account of the scientific knowledge of evolution at the time.
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