Abstract
THERE has been a marked tendency in recent years for educationists to review the contents of school curricula so as to bring them into closer relationship with everyday life. Biology, in particular, has been the target of much criticism on the ground that most school teaching was but a faint and distant reflexion of advanced university courses-or, as one critic put it, “the beverage of school children is Hentschel and Cook and water”. Signs have not been lacking, however, that changes are on the way. Some School Certificate biology syllabuses have been 'humanized', the journal Biology has added “and Human Affairs” to its title ; the columns of Nature have had articles discussing the significance of social biology and proposing the establishment of a National Institute of Social Biology ; and now the social biology text-books are beginning to appear. An Introduction to Social Biology By Alan Dale. Pp. vii + 396. (London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1946.) 15s. net.
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