• DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1966.0010
Corpus ID: 73216473

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892-1964

@article{Pirie1966JohnBS,
  title={John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892-1964},
  author={N. Pirie},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1966},
  pages={218 - 249}
}

N. Pirie

Published 1966

Biology

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Few families have their history so well documented as the Haldanes. J. B. S. Haldane, writing of his father (1961g), says: ‘He was born with a historically labelled Y chromosome. That is to say, his ancestors in the putative direct male line since about A. D. 1250 are known. There are, I believe, about fifteen similarly labelled sets of Y chromosomes in Britain. Their possession is generally a handicap, but may help to protect the possessors against the voice of the Establishment.’ There is no… CONTINUE READING

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