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Essays in popular science
Title:
Essays in popular science
Author:
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
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Publication Information:
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1927.
Physical Description:
xvi pages, 1 leaf, 316 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Heredity I.--Heredity II--The inheritance of acquired characters.--The determination of sex.--Why do more boy babies die than girls?--The Dominant sex.--Biology in Utopia.--The control of the life-cycle.--The meaning of death.--"Elixir vitæ."--Birth control.--Thomas Henry Huxley and religion.--On the history of science.--Birds and the territorial system.--An hours's psychology.--Evolution and purpose.--The frog and biology.--The tadpole: a study in developmental physiology.
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Book