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Essays in popular science /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Penguin, 1937.
Series:Pelican Books ; A7
Subjects:
Biology.
Table of 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 vitae ̓-- Birth control
  • Thomas Henry Huxley and religion
  • On the history of science
  • Birds and the territorial system
  • An hour's psychology
  • Evolution and purpose
  • The frog and biology
  • The tadpole: a study in developmental physiology.