ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |6 pages

On Scales

chapter |11 pages

Some Dates

chapter |9 pages

On Being the Right Size

chapter |18 pages

Darwinism To-Day

chapter |6 pages

Enzymes

chapter |6 pages

Vitamins

chapter |7 pages

Man as a Sea Beast

chapter |5 pages

Food Control in Insect Societies

chapter |7 pages

Oxygen Want

chapter |6 pages

Water Poisoning and Salt Poisoning

chapter |4 pages

Immunity

chapter |4 pages

Blood Transfusion

chapter |6 pages

Cancer Research

chapter |3 pages

The Fight With Tuberculosis

chapter |4 pages

Food Poisoning

chapter |4 pages

The Time Factor in Medicine

chapter |13 pages

On Being One’s Own Rabbit

chapter |4 pages

What Use is Astronomy?

chapter |6 pages

Kant and Scientific Thought

chapter |5 pages

Thomas Henry Huxley

chapter |4 pages

William Bateson

chapter |15 pages

The Future of Biology

chapter |8 pages

Nationality and Research

chapter |14 pages

Scientific Research for Amateurs

chapter |6 pages

Should Scientific Research be Rewarded?

chapter |8 pages

Science and Politics

chapter |7 pages

Eugenics and Social Reform

chapter |7 pages

Occupational Mortality

chapter |7 pages

When I am Dead 1

chapter |14 pages

The Duty of Doubt

chapter |16 pages

Science and Theology as Art Forms

chapter |8 pages

Meroz

chapter |11 pages

Some Enemies of Science

chapter |27 pages

Possible Worlds

chapter |23 pages

The Last Judgment

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue