Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, F.R.S.

J. B. S. Haldane (1949) on infectious disease and evolution.

CHARLES Darwin was gratefully aware of the adFisher and Luca Cavalli-Sforza, but there is scant record vances in microbiology and infectious disease (ID) of their interventions. associated with his contemporaries, Louis Pasteur and In his paper, Haldane recites common knowledge of Robert Koch. Nevertheless, in none of his works does ID and its potential potency as an agent of natural seleche ma...

J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr and the Beanbag genetics dispute.

Starting from the early decades of the twentieth century, evolutionary biology began to acquire mathematical overtones. This took place via the development of a set of models in which the Darwinian picture of evolution was shown to be consistent with the laws of heredity discovered by Mendel. The models, which came to be elaborated over the years, define a field of study known as population gen...

Prof. U. S. Nayak M.S., M.Ch., F.R.A.C.S.

Born in Vijayawada, to Dr. U.V Nayak, Professor of Anatomy at MMC, and Mrs. Sanjeevi Bai, Dr. Nayak graduated in medicine from MMC in 1954 and went on to pursue post‐graduation in general surgery from another prestigious institute, Stanley Medical College in 1959. He was the first batch pupil along with Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan, when the legendary Prof. C R Sunderarajan started the first M.Ch....

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6 . 042 J / 18 . 062 J , Fall ’ 05 : Mathematics for Computer Science October 3 Prof . Albert

A 1994 University of Chicago study entitled The Social Organization of Sexuality found that on average men have 74% more opposite­gender partners than women, confirming a view that men are more promiscuous. But whoever reported this finding was lying or confused! We’ll show you how to use the properties of vertex degrees in a graph to prove this. Let’s recast opposite­gender partnering in graph...