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Clara Pinto-Correia is brilliantly illuminating on 鈥減reformation鈥�, the
historical idea that gametes contain future generations ad infinitum in The
Ovary of Eve. By asking, 鈥渨hich came first, the sperm or the egg?鈥� she reveals
the religious, cultural and social complexity of this beautiful scientific
notion, which occupied the minds of natural philosophers for over a century.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 拢23.95/$29.95, ISBN
0226669521.