Possible Worlds
by J. B. S. Haldane
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Haldane advanced genetics, population biology and evolutionary theory. This volume emphasizes important developments in natural sciences in the early-20th century. It describes Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist.Tags
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Essays in workmanlike English for the intelligent non-specialist, hardly bettered in 75 years. When Haldane needed data, as for instance in the construction of decompression tables for divers, he experimented on himself - not, as in the fashion of so-called "scientists" of a later era, on others who were ignorant of the nature and dangers of the experiments being carried out on them.
This is an OLD book I stumbled across. The collection of essays really shows the mindset of the time period. Some of the essays are really thought-provoking, and a few of them, to me at least, were offensive.
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Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class One, Natural Science
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J.B.S. Haldane was the William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry at Cambridge University. He simultaneously served as Fellow of New College, in Oxford University's Horticultural Institute. Carl A. Price served until 1999 as professor of plant molecular biology in the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He show more also served as the editor of Plant Molecular Biology Reporter from 1983 until 1997 show less
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The Phoenix Library (52)
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- English
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- ASINs
- 14
