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IT is impossible to review this book in the space available. It is full of ideas, records of experimental work and stimulating discussion. Every page of it counts. The author is a surgeon at the Charing Cross Hospital, and his broad thesis is a discussion of the origin and evolution of what he calls the instinctive tripod, namely, self-preservation, growth and sex, all of which are classified as instincts. The chapter leading to his discussion of instinct is a remarkable summing up of the development of animals. Like the final chapter on the nature of man, it reveals the author's wide knowledge and outlook.
Endocrine Man
A Study in the Surgery of Sex. By Dr. L. R. Broster. Pp. xi + 144. (London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1944.) 12s. 6d. net.
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LAPAGE, G. Endocrine Man. Nature 154, 382 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154382a0
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