Abstract
The discussion with Rao and Nanjundiah about the history of interactions between J. B. S. Haldane and Ernst Mayr is further extended in this note. The nature of the dispute about beanbag genetics is explicated as consisting of two separate issues, one about the role of mathematical analysis in evolutionary biology, and the other about the value of single-locus genic models.
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The saying is typically attributed to Mies van der Rohe (in conversation) though there appears to be no record of Mies ever putting it down in print—see Schulze and Windhorst (2012).
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Sarkar, S. Haldane and Mayr: a response to Rao and Nanjundiah. HPLS 38, 151–154 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-016-0101-6
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