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|align=left|At age 8 years, J.B.S. accompanies his father to attend a lecture by the British experimental geneticist, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879–1915), reportedly on Mendel’s laws of inheritance, but possibly also on an opposing view of heredity, given Darbishire’s years of work attempting to reconcile the two views.<ref>Ankeny RA (2004) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004750216919 Marvelling at the Marvel: The Supposed Conversion of A.D. Darbishire to Mendelism.] ''Journal of the History of Biology'' 33:315-347.</ref> | |align=left|At age 8 years, J.B.S. accompanies his father to attend a lecture by the British experimental geneticist, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879–1915), reportedly on Mendel’s laws of inheritance, but possibly also on an opposing view of heredity, given Darbishire’s years of work attempting to reconcile the two views, the biometric and Mendelian views.<ref>Ankeny RA (2004) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004750216919 Marvelling at the Marvel: The Supposed Conversion of A.D. Darbishire to Mendelism.] ''Journal of the History of Biology'' 33:315-347.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 20:19, 26 February 2008
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The Victorian Age: Reign of Victoria, Queen of England and Ireland | |
J.B.S. Born, November 5, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Oxford, England | |
“I suppose my scientific career began at the age of about two, when I used to play on the floor of his laboratory and watch him playing a complicated game called "experiments"-the rules I did not understand, but he clearly enjoyed it.”[1] | |
Sister of J.B.S., Naomi born; later becomes Lady Mitichison | |
Rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s Laws of Heredity by Carl Correns, Erik von Tschermak, and Hugo de Vries; those works later to occupy JBS in attempting to synthesize Mendel's Laws and Darwin's theory of evolution. | |
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS PERTINENT TO THE LIFE, WORK AND TIMES OF J. B. S. HALDANE (referred in this chronology as J.B.S.)
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