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Entry: The Case of the Midwife Toad: Science, Sex, and Chicanery - A87913894
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni - U1590784

Sticking this in here, although I'll have to go back and add the h2g2 links.

Biological skullduggery, which I hope I have managed to explain sufficiently in this book review.

This is intriguing. My mind boggled at the clause 'Professor Steinach's rejuvenation experiments by stimulating the internal secretion of the sex glands became all the rage in the popular press about the time of the discovery of Tutenkhamon's [sic] tomb.

One thing I'd like to be clear about. When you talk about Kammerer's experiments with salamanders, you contrast producing tadpoles with live births. I would have thought a tadpole is a live birth - the alternative being eggs. Or does one of the species produce young which are like the adults only smaller?

Thanks for reading!

Yes, I meant that the other births produced offspring that were like the adults, only smaller, rather than tadpoles.

I'll have a check to see if there's a more scientific way to say that.

Reworded.

h2g2 links added. If you have any other favourites, let me know.

Love this, it has many intriguing elements I just love. A man ahead of his time, indeed.

How's about a link for Tutankhamun's tomb? A28808571

for writing this up


GB

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