A Dominant Character:The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian

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J.B.S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius, never lacking for drama. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers thought him a polymath; one student called him ‘the last man who knew all there was to be known’. Beginning in the 1930s, Haldane was also a staunch Communist – a stance that enhanced his public profile, led him into trouble, and even drew suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics for the layman, in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio, all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. ‘A Dominant Character’ unpacks Haldane’s boisterous life in detail, and it examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics.

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