THE FEMALE ANIMAL<i> by Irene Elia; introduction by Ashley Montagu (A Donald Hutter Book / Henry Holt: $21.95; 318 pp.) </i>
“A ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ across life forms,” told as “a series of vivid and provocative descriptions of alternative experiments in living among algae, bacteria, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals.”
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