The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells, published in three volumes by The Waverley Publishing Company Ltdnot verified, but probably a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press. in 1929–30, giving a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology"David C. Smith, H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 263. and "the best popular introduction to the biological sciences".Norman and Jean Mackenzie, H.G. Wells: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973), p. 357. Wells's most recent biographer notes that The Science of Life "is not quite as dated as one might suppose".Michael Sherborne, H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 286.
