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. Haldane, by Samanth Subramanian, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
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Samanth Subramanian’s new biography of the British scientific genius J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) devotes its attention both to Haldane’s historic achievements in the field of genetics (and much other scientific research) and to his extremely prominent political activism. These two sides of his life occasionally overlapped.
After a period as a very public fellow traveler of the British Communist Party, Haldane formally joined the CP in 1942, in the middle of the wartime alliance between Churchill and Stalin. He quietly left the Stalinist party in 1950, unable any longer to publicly defend the reactionary anti-scientific edicts handed down by Moscow. Haldane never broke from Stalinism politically, however.
Life in the Balance – Humanity & the Biodiversity Crisis: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis by Eldredge, Niles at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0691001251 - ISBN 13: 9780691001258 - Princeton University Press - 1998 - Hardcover