Lancelot Hogben, Scientific Humanist: An Unauthorized Autobiography
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Merlin: 1998. Pp.254 £14.95
Yet he threw his eloquence and prestige as a public figure into opposing the pernicious eugenic doctrines that were taking hold in the years after the First World War, and he perceived and denounced the meretricious nature of attempts to link race with intelligence. He was a fine writer and popularizer of science, and his hugely successful books Science for the Citizen and Mathematics for the Million illuminated the subjects for a mass readership as never before. With Huxley and J. B. S. Haldane he founded the Company of Biologists and the Society for Experimental Biology, complete with its journal, which still thrives today. And in one of his first published papers he demonstrated, against the prevailing view, that chromosomes paired side-by-side in meiosis and not end-to-end.
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