Download or read book Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences written by James Elwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.