J. B. S. Haldane/Works
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Books by J.B.S. Haldane
- The Causes of Evolution (1932) Harper and Brothers, New York. Re-issued in 1990 with Introduction and Afterword by Egbert Leigh by the Princeton Science Library ISBN 978-0-691-02442-4
- From the Princeton Science Library website: "In The Causes of Evolution he [J.B.S. Haldane] not only helped to marry the new science of genetics to the older one of evolutionary theory but also provided an accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection. Egbert Leigh's new introduction to this classic work places it in the context of the ongoing study of evolution. Describing Haldane's refusal to be confined by a "System" as a "light-hearted" one, Leigh points out that we are now finding that "Haldane's questions are the appropriate next stage in learning how adaptation can evolve. We are now ready to reap the benefit of the fact that Haldane was a free man in the sense that really matters.""
- From Mayr E. (1992) Haldane's Causes of Evolution After 60 Years. Quarterly Review of Biology. 67:175-186. "Those interested in Haldane's mathematical genetics should turn to Leigh's new edition, in which the editor provides an 18-page Introduction and a most valuable Afterword of 75 pages, where a great deal of the research in mathematical population genetics published after 1932 is summarized. This contribution is particularly important, because it was Haldane's work that provided the point of departure for many of these developments." Full-Text