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A Rare Sperm Abnormality: ‘Corkscrew-sperms’ associated with Sterility in Bulls - Nature

Williams and Savage1 introduced a semen examination method for the evaluation of the seminal micropathology in bulls, the results of which in the hands of the experienced examiner are of definite ...

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The Study of Man1 - Nature

It was assumed that the workings of the human mind were everywhere similar, and that, given similar conditions, similar customs would originate. The evolution of civilisation was looked upon ...

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Primitive Law - Nature

Or again a subject such as the compara tive study of the mental processes of savages, a line of research which has already proved fertile to psychology and might be made useful to those engaged ...

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The Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea 1 - Nature

A short visit was paid to the Dutch settlement of Merauke, newly established among the Tugeri tribes of Netherlands New Guinea to check the raids into British territory of these enterprising ...

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Thread-twisting - Nature

As “J. S.” observes in NATURE of March 20 (p. 478), it may be one of the survivals from a barbarous period which we have lost since the introduction of...

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In Savage Isles and Settled Lands: Malaysia, Australasia,and Polynesia, 1888–1891 - Nature

The journey was evidently a leisurely peregrination with many divergences to places of interest off his direct route out to Brisbane in Queensland, whither he was bound to assume... and America ...

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The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and Social Condition of Savages - Nature

NOW that Sir John Lubbock's work on the “Origin of Civilisation” has reached a second edition, it is perhaps only natural that those who make it their business to warn the public against the ...

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Inside the nightmare of Madonna’s self-directed biopic

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Fish Poisons as Insecticides - Nature

THE destruction of fresh-water fish by means of the poisonous properties of certain plants is almost as widespread as the use of the conventional form of fish trap in one or other of its common ...

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