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The Physical Basis of Personality

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IN this book the reader will find a stimulating discussion of known facts about heredity, genes, endocrine organs and related biological conceptions. The terminology of these conceptions is freely used nowadays, often without a clear understanding of its meaning. It is therefore important that this meaning should be precisely understood. For this reason alone this book should be read.

The Physical Basis of Personality

By Prof. V. H. Mottram. (Pelican Books, A.139.) Pp. 126. (Harmondsworth and New York:Penguin Books, Ltd., 1944.) 9d.

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LAPAGE, G. The Physical Basis of Personality. Nature 156, 763–764 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156763a0

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