Abstract
IT is not surprising to find that this book departs in some ways from the tradition set by others on scientific subjects in this well-known series. In the first place, the subject itself is not restricted by the formal confines of academic curricula, and Dr. Wiesner has had to draw on such diverse branches of knowledge as physiology, anatomy, endocrinology, genetics, general biology and psychology. In so doing, the author has revealed a second feature of his departure from Home University Library orthodoxy, by showing himself an original thinker and by asking the lay reader to consider hypotheses, to weigh evidence and, in short, to puzzle things out for himself, instead of merely accepting ex cathedra statements about scientifically established ‘facts'.
Sex
By Dr. B. P. Wiesner. (Home University Library of Modem Knowledge, No. 180.) Pp. 256. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1936.) 2s. 6d. net.
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B., A. Sex. Nature 139, 9 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139009a0
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