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  2. J. B. S. Haldane - Wikipedia

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    The JBS Haldane Lecture [124] of The Genetics Society is named in his honour as well. In the novel Antic Hay (1923) Haldane was parodied by his friend Aldous Huxley as an obsessive self-experimenter described as "the biologist too absorbed in his experiments to notice his friends bedding his wife". [125]

  3. A Dominant Character - Wikipedia

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    A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane, British-Indian geneticist, communist and writer; written by Samanth Subramanian and published by Simon and Schuster in 2019.

  4. On Being the Right Size - Wikipedia

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    On Being the Right Size" is a 1926 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential link between the size of an animal and these systems an animal has for life. [1] It was published as one of Haldane's collected essays in Possible Worlds and Other Essays.

  5. Haldane's dilemma - Wikipedia

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    In his discussion Haldane writes that the substitution cost, if it is paid by juvenile deaths, "usually involves a number of deaths equal to about 10 or 20 times the number in a generation" – the minimum being the population size (= "the number in a generation") and rarely being 100 times that number. Haldane assumes 30 to be the mean value. [5]

  6. Edith Rebecca Saunders - Wikipedia

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    Edith Rebecca Saunders FLS (14 October 1865 – 6 June 1945) was a British geneticist and plant anatomist.Described by J. B. S. Haldane as the "Mother of British Plant Genetics", [1] she played an active role in the re-discovery of Mendel's laws of heredity, the understanding of trait inheritance in plants, and was the first collaborator of the geneticist William Bateson.

  7. Haldane's rule - Wikipedia

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    In humans, barring intersex conditions causing aneuploidy and other unusual states, it is the male that is heterogametic, with XY sex chromosomes.. Haldane's rule is an observation about the early stage of speciation, formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that states that if — in a species hybrid — only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more ...

  8. Daedalus; or, Science and the Future - Wikipedia

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    Daedalus; or, Science and the Future is a book by the British scientist J. B. S. Haldane, published in England in 1924. It was the text of a lecture [ 1 ] read to the Heretics Society (an intellectual club at the University of Cambridge ) on 4 February 1923.

  9. Haldane's decompression model - Wikipedia

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    Haldane's decompression model is a mathematical model for decompression to sea level atmospheric pressure of divers breathing compressed air at ambient pressure that was proposed in 1908 by the Scottish physiologist, John Scott Haldane (2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936), [1] who was also famous for intrepid self-experimentation.