Biology for Those Who Seek Answers in Nature

Biology is the science of life, but everyone knows this, just as they know that biology is considered the most important of the sciences, since among other living organisms it studies us as well. Confucius would say about this: "the... noble person studies the science that studies himself, while the worthless person neglects it". And he would be a thousand times right. Biology has a very unusual history. On the one hand, mankind began to accumulate knowledge about living nature from the moment of its appearance. Early humans were already knowledgeable in botany and zoology - they knew which plants were edible and which were not, and studied the behavior of animals in order to hunt them. On the other hand, biology as a separate science emerged only in the early 19th century, when scientists finally paid attention to the fact that all living things have something in common, a series of common properties and characteristics. This book will tell about the differences between the living and the non-living, about how life arose, and much more.