Essays in popular science / by Julian Huxley.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1926.

xii, 307 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams ; 23 cm

Heredity I.--Heredity II.--The inheritance of acquired characters.--The determination of sex--Why do more boy babies die than girls?--The dominant sex--Biology in Utopia.--The control of the life-cycle.--The meaning of death.--ʻElixir vitae.'--Birth control.--Thomas Henry Huxley and religion.--On the history of science.--Birds and the territorial system.--An hour's psychology.--Evolution and purpose.--The frog and biology.--The tadpole: a study in developmental physiology.