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Man in the modern world / Julian Huxley

By: Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 1947Description: 281p. 21 cm.Subject(s): Biology | Social sciences | Man : Pace in the modern worldDDC classification: 218
Contents:
The uniqueness of man.--Eugenics and society.--Climate and human history.--The size of living things.--The courtship of animals.--The intelligence of birds.--The analysis of fame.--Science, natural and social.--Religion as an objective problem.--Life can be worth living.--On living in a revolution.--Philosophy in a world at war.--War as a biological phenomenon.--Darwinism today.--Thomas Henry Huxley and Julian Huxley: an imaginary interview.--Dr. Spooner: the growth of a legend.--Birds and men on St. Kilda.--Tennessee revisited: the technique of democratic planning.--Colonies in a changing world.--"Race" in Europe.--Education as a social function.
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General Collection 218/Hux (Browse shelf) Available 1377

The first ten [essays] appeared in The uniqueness of man ... and the last eleven in On living in a revolution."

The uniqueness of man.--Eugenics and society.--Climate and human history.--The size of living things.--The courtship of animals.--The intelligence of birds.--The analysis of fame.--Science, natural and social.--Religion as an objective problem.--Life can be worth living.--On living in a revolution.--Philosophy in a world at war.--War as a biological phenomenon.--Darwinism today.--Thomas Henry Huxley and Julian Huxley: an imaginary interview.--Dr. Spooner: the growth of a legend.--Birds and men on St. Kilda.--Tennessee revisited: the technique of democratic planning.--Colonies in a changing world.--"Race" in Europe.--Education as a social function.

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