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Y worries
There are two ways to write about a branch of science for an audience of non-scientists; one is to try and make the audience understand the basic principles of the subject, the other is to entertain them by a rapid succession of pieces of information. Steve Jones's latest book falls firmly into the second category. Given that the subject is the biology of the human male, there is of course no s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)01376-3