1st Edition

Possible Worlds

By J.B.S. Haldane Copyright 2002
    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    352 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    On Scales; Some Dates; On Being the Right Size; Darwinism To-Day; Enzymes; Vitamins; Man as a Sea Beast; Food Control in Insect Societies; Oxygen Want; Water Poisoning and Salt Poisoning; Immunity; Blood Transfusion; Cancer Research; The Fight With Tuberculosis; Food Poisoning; The Time Factor in Medicine; On Being One’s Own Rabbit; What Use is Astronomy?; Kant and Scientific Thought; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Bateson; The Future of Biology; Nationality and Research; Scientific Research for Amateurs; Should Scientific Research be Rewarded?; Science and Politics; Eugenics and Social Reform; Occupational Mortality; When I am Dead 1; The Duty of Doubt; Science and Theology as Art Forms; Meroz; Some Enemies of Science; Possible Worlds; The Last Judgment; Epilogue

    Biography

    J.B.S. Haldane