John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was a British,later Indian,scientist known for his work in the study of physiology,genetics,evolutionary biology and in mathematics,where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and bio statistics.
He was the son of the equally famous John Scott Haldane and was a professed socialist,Marxist,atheist and humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and live in India,becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961.
His first paper in 1915 demonstrated genetic linkage in mammals while subsequent works helped to create population genetics,thus establishing a unification of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution by natural selection whilst laying the groundwork for modern evolutionary synthesis.
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