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This article will be released in full online October 25, 2021. By any standards, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964) was a fascinating man.

28/04/2021 Krishnappa Chandrashekara delivering a lecture during the ‘Being Social’ symposium organised by the author’s students in June 2013 at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc. Photo: RG Lab Collection The evolutionary biologist and polymath J.B.S. Haldane is said to have remarked that “The universe is not only queerer than we imagine but queerer than we can imagine.” And one of those many queer things is that there are more species of beetles than any other kind of animal on our planet. This queer fact also apparently did not escape Haldane’s notice and repar...

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “A Port in a Storm,” appeared in the April 2018 issue. Tags

. Haldane, by Samanth Subramanian, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY , . 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 quie...