During a recent political crisis [this was written in 1967], when there was a temporary increase in the likelihood of nuclear war, all experiments into palmar sweating at a research institute had to be abandoned because the base level of the response had become so abnormal that the tests would have been meaningless. (p188)
-The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris, 1967
(a book about the human animal by a zoologist)
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