Life Sciences (Library Binding)

The new reference series describes and illustrates through stimulating texts, feature boxes, and chronologies, and innovative imagry, the lives, discoveries, and theories of great scientists and thinkers. This book introduces the great life scientists, people such as Carolus Linnaeus, whose classification system links indirectly to Charles Darwin's Theory of evolution. It also looks at the work of Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur, producers of vaccines, and Alexander Flemming, who discovered penicillin.