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: "A noble person studies the science that studies themselves, while a worthless person disregards it." And he would be right a thousand times over. Biology has a very unusual history. On one hand, humanity began accumulating knowledge about living nature from the moment of its appearance. Early humans already understood botany and zoology - they knew which plants were edible and which were not, and studied the behavior of animals to hunt them. On the other hand, biology only emerged as a separate science in the early 19th century, when scientists finally paid attention to the fact that all living things share something in common, a range of common properties and characteristics. This book will tell you about what distinguishes the living from the non-living, how life originated, and much more.