Who is the scientist JBS Haldane?

Samad that Subramanian will join us to talk about his book, A Dominant Character, The

Radical Science, and Restless Politics of JBS Haldane.

What makes the eels such an unusual and misunderstood creature?

Patrick's Fenson will be here to talk about his International Best Seller, The Book of

Eels.

Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.

This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

It's August 21st.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Joining us now from London is Samad Subramanian.

His new book is called A Dominant Character, The Radical Science and Restless Politics of

JBS Haldane.

Samad, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure.

The review of this book came in and all of us who read it were just and who hadn't read

the book yet were stunned by this story.

This really remarkable, and I have to say, kind of crazy story, especially in the upbringing

of JBS Haldane's scientist, and we're kind of baffled that we had not heard of him.

But I understand that certainly in his day, he was a celebrity as far as scientists are

celebrities that was as big as Einstein in England.

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