Brave New World (Iron Maiden Album)

HaldaneБЂ™s son Jack, known to posterity as J.B.S., was a remarkable prodigy who took an interest in his fatherБЂ™s work almost from infancy. At the age of three he was overheard demanding peevishly of his father, БЂњBut is it oxyhaemoglobin or carboxyhaemoglobin?БЂ«Throughout his youth, the young Haldane helped his father with experiments. By the time he was a teenager, the two often tested gases and gas masks together, taking turns to see how long it took them to pass out. Though J. B. S. Haldane never took a degree in science (he studied classics at Oxford), he became a brilliant scientist in his own right, mostly in Cambridge. The biologist Peter Medawar, who spent his life around mental Olympians, called him БЂњthe cleverest man I ever knew.БЂ«Huxley likewise parodied the younger Haldane in his novel Antic Hay, but also used his ideas on genetic manipulation of humans as the basis for the plot of Brave New World. Among many other achievements, Haldane played a central role in marrying Darwinian principles of evolution to the genetic work of Gregor Mendel to produce what is known to geneticists as the Modern Synthesis ...»