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A Dominant Character - How J. B. S. Haldane Transformed Genetics, Became a Communist, and Risked His Neck for Science (Paperback)
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A Dominant Character - How J. B. S. Haldane Transformed Genetics, Became a Communist, and Risked His Neck for Science (Paperback)
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J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius
or drama-from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father,
who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to
his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote
his first scientific paper; to his numerous experiments on himself,
including inhaling dangerous levels of carbon dioxide and drinking
hydrochloric acid; to his clandestine research for the British
Admiralty during the Second World War. He is best remembered as a
geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but
his peers hailed him as a polymath. One student called him "the
last man who might know all there was to be known." He foresaw in
vitro fertilization, peak oil, and the hydrogen fuel cell, and his
contributions ranged over physiology, genetics, evolutionary
biology, mathematics, and biostatistics. He was also a staunch
Communist, which led him to Spain during the Civil War and sparked
suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously
on science and politics in newspapers and magazines, and he gave
speeches in town halls and on the radio-all of which made him, in
his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. It is the duty of
scientists to think politically, Haldane believed, and he sought
not simply to tell his readers what to think but to show them how
to think. Beautifully written and richly detailed, Samanth
Subramanian's A Dominant Character recounts Haldane's boisterous
life and examines the questions he raised about the intersections
of genetics and politics-questions that resonate even more urgently
today.
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