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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.
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]
A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic , philosophy , and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic .
The Causes of Evolution is a 1932 book on evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1990 edition ISBN 0-691-02442-1), based on a series of January 1931 lectures entitled "A Re-examination of Darwinism". It was influential in the founding of population genetics and the modern synthesis .
It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Relaxing days by the beach become boring after a while, and even certain vitamins can have adverse effects when taken in extremely high doses. But ...
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 ...