The worm re-turns : the best from the Worm runner's digest, edited by James V. McConnell

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The worm re-turns : the best from the Worm runner's digest, edited by James V. McConnell

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the best from the Worm runner's digest

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edited by James V. McConnell

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• The worm re-turns : the best from the Worm runner's digest

Publication

• Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1965

Bibliography note

Bibliography: page 7

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Contents

Compulsory preface -- Instroduction : Behold the lowly worm / Arthur Koestler -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Politic worms / Jane Clapperton -- The research man's prayer / R.A. McCleary -- Einstein's girl Friday / Robert Sommer -- Keys, kings, and kompanies / Robert Sommer -- A new tool / Mo Twente -- Population debris : a bedtime tale for Astronods / Mo Twente -- How Newton discovered the law of gravitation / James E. Miller -- Socrates and the weathermen / James E. Miller -- The effect of a pre-frontal lobotomy on the mounting behavior of the Congolesered-eyed, thyroidectomized tsetse fly / J.M. Klein ... [et al.] -- Mumme's worms / Roy I. Mumme -- The uses of statistics / J.D. Ketchum -- The effect of background noise on the detection of cork-popping / Larry Newberry -- Keep off the premisies! / Mildred Cleaves -- First prize / Peter D. Runkel -- Nice people don't eat / J.D. Ketchum -- Another fable / Peter R. Runkel -- Biological warfare / Peter R. Runkel -- Some thoughts on a modern scientific research institute / David Dwyer, Gershom C. Morningstar -- Dr. B. Willder's zigzaggery division / Robert L. Dean -- B. Willder's palsied prose / Robert L. Dean -- The last Canute / Garrett Hardin -- Three contributions to experimental psychological knowledge / Ronald E. Shor -- Verse, even verse / Anne Bowes -- An overlooked basic principle of development and personality / F. Nowell Jones -- Nature-nurture / Jeanne S. Jung -- At last : the foodian psycholysis / W.S. Taylor -- Some comments on an addition to the theory of psychosexual development / Myron Braunstein -- On the nature of mathematical proofs / Joel E. Cohen -- In the hunt for bigger game / Joel E. Cohen -- A brief introduction to locogenetics / Damon Knight -- The truth about Mendel, or, Hollyhocks and the forebears / Peter M. Driver -- A lorry ran over my auntie / Peter M. Driver -- What the plutty----? / Peter M. Driver -- Alice's adventures in Evolutionland / Thomas Morrill -- The RNA of a worm / John Aeschlimann -- Learning theory / James V. McConnell -- A note on the contributors

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2163482

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22 cm

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xxv, 182 pages

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65012482

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