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Scholars have paid ample attention to Aristotle's works on animals. By contrast, they have paid little or no attention to Theophrastus' writings on plants. That is unfortunate because there was a shared research project in the early Peripatos which amounted to a systematic, and theoretically motivated, study of perishable living beings (animals and plants). This is the first sustained attempt to explore how Aristotle and Theophrastus envisioned this study, with attention focused primarily on its deep structure. That entails giving full consideration to a few transitional passages where Aristotle and Theophrastus offer their own description of what they are trying to do. What emerges is a novel, sophisticated, and largely idiosyncratic approach to the topic of life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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ANDREA FALCON is Professor Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal) and currently lecturing at the University of Milan). He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many books, with his two most recent co-edited books on Aristotle being: Aristotle's De incessu animalium (Cambridge, 2021) and Aristotle's Generation and Corruption II (Cambridge, 2022).

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