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Identifier: b20442221 (find matches)
Title: Sex (electronic resource)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Geddes, Patrick, Sir, 1854-1932.
Subjects: Sex
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company London : Williams and Norgate
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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18 SEX and mammal. All the different modes ofsexual reproduction, all the different illus-trations of sex-dimorphism, all the forms ofmating, have to be studied (Figs. 1 and 2).
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Fia. 2.—Minute male and large female spider, Nephila nigca*$ natural size. (After Vinson.) The more precise physiological study passesinsensibly into medical inquiries as to thenormal and abnormal exercise of sexualfunctions, as to the phenomena of adolescence, THE STUDY OF SEX 19 maturity and the climacteric. The moregeneral Natural History study passes insen-sibly into psychological inquiries as to thesexual impulses, instincts, and emotions,as to the rise and progress of that humancomplex which we call love ; and thence,alas, into its pathology also. In our insistence on the fundamental neces-sity of the biological approach—apart fromwhich human nature cannot be rightly under-stood—we are far from falling into the fallacyof forgetting that the biological interpretationrequires to be supplemented by the psycholo-gical and the social. We wish to make ourposition in this respect quite clear. Throughand through, and back to the ovum, Man isa mammal, with a mammals structure andfu

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