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Possible worlds : and other essays

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  • "John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was a giant among men. He made major contributions to genetics, population biology, and evolutionary theory. He was at once comfortable in mathematics, chemistry, microbiology and animal physiology. But it was his belief in education that led to his preparing his popular essays for publication. In his own words: "Many scientific workers believe that they should confine their publications to learned journals. I think that the public has a right to know what is going on inside the laboratories, for some of which it pays." So begins Haldane's collection of essays, perhaps the most public intellectual communicating science before the writings of Stephen Jay Gould. The first part of the volume emphasizes the important developments in biology and natural science in the first quarter of the century. As such, it provides a benchmark for studies of the next three quarters of the century. In an unusual introduction, Price takes the readers through their paces, discussing the situation then and now in vitamins, oxygen want, disease controls, and the rewards of science as such. This is followed by Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist. The editor provides readers unfamiliar with Haldane with a carefully rendered chronology of a life that began in 1892 and that spanned much of the present century."

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  • "Mundos posibles"
  • "Mundos posibles"@es
  • "Possible worlds : and other essays"
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  • "Possible Worlds"
  • "Possible Worlds"@en
  • "Possible Worlds, and other essays"
  • "Possible words, and other essays"
  • "Possible Worlds and other Essays"
  • "Possible words and other essays"
  • "Possible worlds and other essays"
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  • "Possible Worlds and other essays"
  • "Possible worlds and other essays, by J. B. S. Haldane"

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