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As the paper was written during Haldane's service during World War I, James F. Crow called it "the most important science article ever written in a front-line trench". [14] Haldane recalled that he was the "only officer to complete a scientific paper from a forward position of the Black Watch". [26]
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.
Leibniz then claims that the only possible reason for the choice between these possible worlds is "the fitness or the degree of perfection" which they possess – i.e., the quality which makes worlds better than others, so that the world with the greatness "fitness" or "perfection" is the best one.
The underlying hypothesis held by Oparin, Haldane, Bernal, Miller and Urey, for instance, was that multiple conditions on the primeval Earth favoured chemical reactions that synthesized the same set of complex organic compounds from such simple precursors. Bernal coined the term biopoiesis in 1949 to refer to the origin of life. [33]
Possible Worlds may refer to: Possible worlds, concept in philosophy; Possible Worlds, 1990 play by John Mighton Possible Worlds, 2000 film by Robert Lepage, based on the play; Possible Worlds (studio) Possible Worlds, poetry book by Peter Porter; Possible Worlds, book by J. B. S. Haldane; Possible Worlds, 1995 album by Markus Stockhausen
In Miracles, Lewis himself quotes J. B. S. Haldane, who appeals to a similar line of reasoning in his 1927 book, Possible Worlds: "If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms." [19]
The World's Earliest Laws by Chilperic Edwards (1934) Fact and Faith by J. B. S. Haldane (1934) Men of the Dawn: The Story of Man’s Evolution to the End of the Old Stone Age by Dorothy Davison (1934) The Mind in the Making by James Harvey Robinson. With an introduction by H. G. Wells (1934) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by ...
John Scott Haldane CH FRS [1] (/ ˈ h ɔː l d eɪ n /; 2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a Scottish physician physiologist and philosopher famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. [2]