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Some Experiments of Nature with Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Paul E. Polani
Paul E. Polani*
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Paediatric Research Unity Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1 9RT
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Professor Penrose was a human geneticist but above all a human biologist interested in all aspects of man's adaptation and behaviours. However, I need not remind you of the fact that his interests were wider. They were, among others, with the field of biology itself. This interest was one reason why he was particularly delighted with some of the discoveries made on human chromosomes and their anomalies, and he shared very abundantly in the work and in the excitement of these discoveries.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 589 , December 1974 , pp. 559 - 567
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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