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From "Science Advances" ppg 220--226 (1944), but probably originally published earlier in The Daily Worker. J.B.S. Haldane was a Darwin Medalist and co-founder of the Modern Synthesis of the Theory of Evolution, alongside Julian Huxley and R.A. Fisher. All three were members of eugenical societies. All three were socialists; Haldane in particular was a Stalinist, while Huxley was a totalitarian. By the time this article was written, Vavilov was in the Gulag. By the time it appeared in Science Advances, Vavilov was already dead. Haldane knew Vavilov personally, and praised him in an earlier essay. J.B.S. Haldane It is somewhat...

J. B. S. HaldaneEvolutionary scientist J.B.S. Haldane was awarded the Darwin Medal. He was the co-founder of the Modern Synthesis of the theory of Evolution, along with Julian Huxley and R.A. Fisher. All three were members of the British Eugenics society. Haldane was also an apologist for Trofim Lysenko. -- ECO Sixty years ago Karl Marx died in London. Every year since his death he has had a greater influence on world history--above all since Lenin put his theories into practice in 1917. To-day even those who most abhor Marxism have to admit that he was a much more important...

Assuming macroevolutionary scenarios were possible (they aren't), the question arises, how much time would you actually need for them? The basic answer to that question is known as the Haldane Dilemma, after the famous mathematician and population geneticist J.B.S. Haldane who published his work in the mid 1950s. The basic answer is that you would need trillions and quadrillions of years, and not just the tens of millions commonly supposed. Walter Remine puts a simplified version of the idea thusly: Imagine a population of 100,000 apes or “proto-humans” ten million years ago which are all genetically alike other than for...