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Generation of Animals

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Originally published
  
350 BC

Author
  
Aristotle

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Works by Aristotle
  
The Parts of Animals, History of Animals, On Generation and Corr, Movement of Animals, On the Heavens

The Generation of Animals (or On the Generation of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως; Latin De Generatione Animalium) is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It describes the means by which animals reproduce.

Contents

Contents

  • Part I: overview - the generative organs - generative secretions - theory of sex-generation
  • Part II: generation in different animals
  • Part III: causes of sex - heredity - teratology - altricial & precocial young - milk - gestation
  • Part IV: development after birth
  • Arabic translation

    The Arabic translation of De Generatione Animalium comprises treatises 15-19 of the Kitāb al-Hayawān (The Book of Animals).

    References

    Generation of Animals Wikipedia