Mysterious Inheritance: A new biography of J.B.S. Haldane

This is a great essay. If the topic interests you, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic work On Growth And Form is also a worthwhile read: https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform00thom

This is in "my friend Mr Leakey" which is a collection of JBS Haldane children's stories, published by puffin books

I'm thinking I may read it to my kids as their bedtime story tomorrow night. I'll have to include some editorial explanations since the idea of marrying one's daughter off as a prize seems a bit odd now, although when I first read this at age seven or so, I don't think it occurred to me that it was odd.

see also https://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/tag/statistics/ for Haldane, “The Faking of Genetical Results“, Eureka #6

"But I shouldn’t worry too much about the higher orders. The only examiner who is likely to spot that you haven’t done them is Haldane, and he’ll probably be interned as a Red before you send your thesis in."