"From fish to mammals and plants to insects, every organism on Earth must reproduce, and the survival of each species--and of life itself--depends on this and on the diversity it creates. In this groundbreaking book, Katherine Roy distills the science of reproduction into its simplest components: organisms must meet, merge their DNA, and grow new individuals; and she thoughtfully highlights the astonishing variety of this process with examples from...

Describes how seeds are moved from place to place by wind, water, and animals, and how they function in plant reproduction.

"Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Photographs, drawings, and text on two different levels of difficulty follow the development of a chick embryo from the fertilization and laying of the egg to the time the chick hatches.