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Generation of Animals

AristotleOriginal title Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως (-349)

The Generation of Animals is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It describes the means by which animals reproduce.

“Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.”

Aristotle book Generation of Animals

Book III, 761a.2
Generation of Animals

“Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.”

Aristotle book Generation of Animals

Book I, 715b.15
Generation of Animals

“Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.”

Aristotle book Generation of Animals

Generation of Animals as translated by Arthur Leslie Peck (1943), p. 175
Generation of Animals

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