Prof. J. S. Haldane, C.H., 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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Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. Richard Hooker, as quoted in the preface of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language Oh, so they have internet on computers now! Homer Simpson It is with great pleasure that I announce the rebirth of the former print journal of the Canadian Geriatrics Society as a new online publication, the Canadian Geriatrics Jo...