Possible Worlds
eBook - ePub

Possible Worlds

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Possible Worlds

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351497732
Subtopic
Sociology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Transaction Introduction
  7. J. B. S. Haldane, A Chronology
  8. Preface
  9. On Scales
  10. Some Dates
  11. On Being the Right Size
  12. Darwinism To-Day
  13. Enzymes
  14. Vitamins
  15. Man as a Sea Beast
  16. Food Control in Insect Societies
  17. Oxygen Want
  18. Water Poisoning and Salt Poisoning
  19. Immunity
  20. Blood Transfusion
  21. Cancer Research
  22. The Fight with Tuberculosis
  23. Food Poisoning
  24. The Time Factor in Medicine
  25. On being one’s own Rabbit
  26. What Use is Astronomy ?
  27. Kant and Scientific Thought
  28. Thomas Henry Huxley
  29. William Bateson
  30. The Future of Biology
  31. Nationality and Research
  32. Scientific Research for Amateurs
  33. Should Scientific Research be Rewarded ?
  34. Science and Politics
  35. Eugenics and Social Reform
  36. Occupational Mortality
  37. When I am Dead
  38. The Duty of Doubt
  39. Science and Theology as Art Forms
  40. Meroz
  41. Some Enemies of Science
  42. Possible Worlds
  43. The Last Judgment