Aristotle not looking great here IMO....”The point of quickening, as described by Aristotle, was the moment at which the life in the womb became human, as opposed to its previous vegetable and animal states. Aristotle believed that quickening took place at forty days for males and eighty days for females”
Aristotle not looking great here IMO....”The point of quickening, as described by Aristotle, was the moment at which the life in the womb became human, as opposed to its previous vegetable and animal states. Aristotle believed that quickening took place at forty days for males and eighty days for females”
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/quickening
Aristotle and other ancient thinkers probably noticed that most animal fetuses were astonishingly similar early in development
That cracked me up! I guess the ancients, like some current cultures, consider male children more valuable/superior than female children ~ 🙀.