Studies about the nature of man. Mechnikov I.

“Studies about the nature of man” - the well -known work of Ilya Mechnikov, who can be safely attributed to the genre of popular science literature. The book written more than a century ago did not lose its relevance, and the questions that the author raises in it remain unresolved today: "How many years should people live?" "Are diseases, old age, death for them inevitable, mandatory?" In a brilliant exciting form of swordsmen, he introduces the reader with a creature named man: talks about his nature and origin, about his difference from animals, about his shortcomings and “disharmony”, about attempts to religion and philosophy with them and, finally, about the possibilities that are that They allow you to successfully fight premature aging and which, according to the scientist, are originally laid in the human body.