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Biology and the future of man / edited by Philip Handler.

  • Handler, Philip, 1917-1981.
Date
1970
  • Books

About this work

Description

A survey of the current status of all the life sciences sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Has sections on the biology of behaviour, ecology, diversity of life, digital computers and the life sciences, feeding mankind, environmental health, renewable resources, etc.

Publication/Creation

New York : Oxford University Press, 1970.

Physical description

xxiv, 936 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

Based on the reports of 21 panels of the Survey Committee on the Life Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council.
ISBN is appended to 3rd reprint (1970).
Includes index.

Languages

  • English

Subjects

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ISBN

  • 0195014243
  • 9780195014242