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The introductory blurb says that Haldane coined the terms "coupling" and "repulsion." He most certainly did not. Those were coined by William Bateson and explored in his experiments with RC Punnett. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22076/ and,<ref>Lindley Darden, Theory Change in Science, 1991</ref> p. 129. Can't figure out how to edit those intro blurbs. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Terraplane34|Terraplane34]] ([[User talk:Terraplane34|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Terraplane34|contribs]]) 14:47, 2 September 2014 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
The article claims that (a) Haldane coined the words "clone" and "cloning," at least in a non-botanical context; and (b) that he introduced those terms in his 1963 speech "Biological Possibilities for the Human Species of the Next Ten Thousand Years."
At least (b) seems false. In the 1963 speech (which is linked to from the article), Haldane talks about human cloning, but he does not introduce the term. He clearly expects his audience both to know the word and to understand the concept already. Another speaker at the same conference, Hermann Muller, also talks about human reproductive cloning and also expects the audience to understand the term without explanation.
This makes me wonder if (a) is false too. I think it is possible that the Oxford English Dictionary cited the 1963 speech as an example of the word, and this has been misinterpreted as the OED saying Haldane invented the word.
At least, if Haldane did coin the words "clone" and "cloning", it would be nice to have a source that correctly identifies when he did that.
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