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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Essays of a Biologist
Julian Huxley
264 pages~5 hr 16 min read25 chapters$4.99
A biologist thinks aloud on the largest questions his science raises. Julian Huxley's essays range from biological progress and the mind of a bird to the biology of sex and the meeting of science and society. Elegant, wide-ranging, and provocative. Follow a first-rate scientist as he reflects on life and its meaning.
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25 chapters
- 1ESSAYS OF A BIOLOGIST
- 2DUCTLESS AND OTHER GLANDS
- 3PREFACE
- 4CONTENTS
- 5CHAPTER I. PROGRESS, BIOLOGICAL AND OTHER
- 6BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 7FOOTNOTES:
- 8II BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
- 9BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 10FOOTNOTES:
- 11III ILS N’ONT QUE DE L’ÂME: AN ESSAY ON BIRD-MIND
- 12BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 13FOOTNOTE:
- 14IV SEX BIOLOGY AND SEX PSYCHOLOGY
- 15SEX BIOLOGY AND SEX PSYCHOLOGY[27]
- 16BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 17FOOTNOTES:
- 18V PHILOSOPHIC ANTS:
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