# J. B. S. Haldane **Entity class:** Person / geneticist and scientific writer **Relevant work:** [[wiki/Daedalus, or Science and the Future|Daedalus, or Science and the Future]] **Relevant date:** Read to the Heretics Society, Cambridge, 4 February 1923; published 1924 ## Definition J. B. S. Haldane was a geneticist and scientific writer whose *Daedalus* lecture explored how biological invention might transform reproduction, human capacities, health, and inherited moral categories. The work alternates expansive technological possibility with attention to misuse and responsibility; neither register should erase the other. ## Relationships - **Authored source:** [[wiki/Daedalus, or Science and the Future|Daedalus, or Science and the Future]] develops Haldane's forecast of deliberate biological change. - **Historical intellectual comparison:** [[wiki/J. D. Bernal|J. D. Bernal]] later explored engineered human bodies and connected minds. The relationship is a comparison of published arguments, not evidence that every mechanism was the same. - **Corpus routes:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]], and [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] place the 1923/24 argument in a longer evolution-and-engineering trajectory. - **Text source:** [*Daedalus* transcription](https://bactra.org/Daedalus.html).