Biology Before Darwin: Crash Course History of Science #19

Biology Before Darwin: Crash Course History of Science #19



You’ve probably heard of Charles Darwin, but before we get to him, you really need to understand how different people, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tried to answer the same question: “what is life?”

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