J. B. S. Haldane | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-25

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00:02:18 1 Biography
00:02:28 1.1 Early life and education
00:04:49 1.2 Career
00:07:53 1.3 In India
00:12:31 1.4 Death
00:13:35 2 Academic achievements
00:14:04 2.1 Enzyme kinetics
00:15:10 2.2 Genetic linkage
00:15:54 2.3 Haldane's principle
00:16:44 2.4 Origin of life
00:19:29 2.5 Population genetics
00:21:14 3 Political views
00:24:04 4 Views
00:24:14 4.1 Cloning of Humans
00:25:01 4.2 Ectogenesis and in vitro fertilisation
00:25:56 4.3 Criticism of C.S. Lewis
00:27:02 4.4 Hydrogen-generating windmills
00:27:33 4.5 Scientists
00:27:59 5 Parodied by Aldous Huxley in the novel iAntic Hay/i
00:28:26 6 Awards and honours
00:29:26 6.1 Posthumous honours
00:29:50 7 Quotations
00:32:42 8 Publications
00:41:40 9 See also



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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane  (; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964) was a British-Indian scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. He made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. 
His article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", and it became the foundation to build physical models for the chemical origin of life.
Haldane established human gene maps for haemophilia and colour blindness on the X chromosome, and codified Haldane's rule on sterility in the heterogametic sex of hybrids in species. He correctly proposed that sickle-cell disease confers some immunity to malaria. He was the first to suggest the central idea of in vitro fertilisation, as well as concepts such as: the hydrogen economy, cis and trans-acting regulation, coupling reaction, molecular repulsion, the darwin (as a unit of evolution) and organismal cloning. In 1957 he articulated Haldane's dilemma, a limit on the speed of beneficial evolution which subsequently proved incorrect. He willed his body for medical studies, as he wanted to remain useful even in death.Haldane's first paper in 1915 demonstrated genetic linkage in mammals. Subsequent works  established a unification of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution by natural selection whilst laying the groundwork for modern evolutionary synthesis and thus helped to create population genetics.
Haldane was a professed socialist, Marxist, atheist and humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and live in India, becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961. He was the son of  John Scott Haldane.
Arthur C. Clarke credited him as "perhaps the most brilliant science populariser of his generation". Nobel laureate Peter Medawar called Haldane "the cleverest man I ever knew".