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Dale's An introduction to social biology
Introduction to social biology
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Dale's an Introduction to Social Biology, Fourth Edition deals with the more practical context of teaching modern science in the background of human activity. This book discusses life in the contex...
Dale's an Introduction to Social Biology, Fourth Edition deals with the more practical context of teaching modern science in the background of human activity. This book discusses life in the context of dynamic space and evolving time: from Paleontological times to evidence found in blood precipitin test, as well as proof from the variability of plants and animals. This text describes man as animal that needs to maintain its species through sex, inheritance, and reproduction. This book also addresses social hygiene, health, and the history of medicine including diagnostics, germ theory, recogn.
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- English
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- Fourth edition, . / edited by Susan Dale
- London : William Heinemann Medical Books, 1971
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- 1 online resource (ix, 496 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9781483192819, 1483192814, 9780433070603, 0433070609, 0433070609
- OCLC
- ocn890813893
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-481) and index.
- Front Cover; Dale's an Introduction to: Social Biology; Copyright Page; Introduction to the Third Edition; Introduction to the Fourth Edition; Aoknowledgments to the Third Edition; Acknowledgments to the Fourth Edition; Table of Contents; CHAPTER I. LIFE IN SPACE AND TIME; CHAPTER II. MAN AND EVOLUTION; Palaeontological Evidence.; Evidence from Comparative Anatomy.; Evidence from the Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals.; Evidences from Embryology.; Evidences from the Blood.; Evidence from the Variability of Plants and Animals.; CHAPTER III. MAN AS AN ANIMAL
- CHAPTER IV. MAINTAINING THE HUMAN SPECIES: (a) SEXCHAPTER V. MAINTAINING THE HUMAN SPECIES: (b) INHERITANCE; CHAPTER VI. MAINTAINING THE HUMAN SPECIES: (c) REPRODUCTION; CHAPTER VII. MAN AND HIS HEALTH: SOCIAL HYGIENE; CHAPTER VIII. MAN AND HIS HEALTII: HISTORY OF MEDICINE; Diagnostic Devices and Techniques.; The Rise of the Germ Theory.; The Recognition of Vectors of Disease.; New Curative Agents.; Vitamins; Internal Secretions.; Hospitals and Nursing.; Public Health Measures; CHAPTER IX. FOOD AND DRINK; Proteins; Carbohydrates.; Fats; Mineral Salts.; CHAPTER X. THE BALANCE OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XI. POPULATIONCHAPTER XII. SOCIAL LIFE AMONG ANIMALS; CHAPTER XIII. SOME REASONS FOR MAN'S SUCCESS; CHAPTER XIV. THE NATURE OF LIFE; ApPENDIX-UNITS OF INHERITANCE; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; INDEX
Subjects
- Human biology.
- Human beings.
- Biology.
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- Philosophy.
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