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'''Jean Rostand''' ([[October 30]], [[1894]] - [[September 4]], [[1977]]) was a [[France|French]] [[biologist]] and [[philosopher]].
Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a [[science writer]], as well as a [[philosopher]] and an activist. His scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as [[amphibian]] [[embryology]], [[parthenogenesis]] and [[teratogeny]], while his literary output extended into popular science, [[history of science]] and philosophy.
He was the son of [[playwright]] [[Edmond Rostand]] and [[poet]]ess [[Rosemonde Gérard]] as well as the brother of novelist and playwright [[Maurice Rostand]].
Following the footsteps of his father, Rostand was elected to the prestigious [[Académie française]] in 1959.
Rostand was a dynamic activist in several causes, in particular against [[nuclear proliferation]] and the [[death penalty]]. An [[agnostic]], he demonstrated deep humanist convictions. He wrote several books on the question of [[eugenism]] and the responsibilities of mankind regarding its own fate and its place in nature.
He married Andrée Mante in 1920. His son François was born the following year.
==Selected works==
* ''Le retour des pauvres '', 1919 - ''Return of the poor''
* ''La loi des riches'', 1920 - ''The law of the rich''
* ''Pendant qu’on souffre encore'', 1921 - ''While suffering endures''
* ''Ignace ou l'Écrivain '', 1923 - ''Ignace or the writer''
* ''Deux angoisses : la mort, l’amour'', 1924 - ''Two anguishes: love and death''
* ''De la vanité et de quelques autres sujets '', 1925 - ''Of vanity and several other subjects''
* ''Les familiotes et autres essais de mystique bourgeoise'', 1925 - ''The familiotes and other essayd of the bourgeois mystique''
* ''De l’amour des idées '', 1926 - ''On the love of ideas''
* ''Le mariage'', 1927 - ''Marriage''
* ''Valère ou l’Exaspéré '', 1927 - ''Valère or The exasperated ''
* ''Julien ou Une conscience'', 1928 - ''Julien or A conscience''
* ''Les chromosomes, artisans de l’hérédité et du sexe'', 1929 - ''Chromosomes, artesans of heredity and sex''
* ''De la mouche à l’Homme'', 1930 - ''From fly to man''
* ''L’état présent du transformisme'', 1931 - ''The current state of transformism''
* ''Journal d’un caractère'', 1931 - ''Journal of a character''
* ''L’Évolution des espèces'', 1932 - ''The evolution of species''
* ''Les problèmes de l’hérédité et du sexe'', 1933 - ''The problems of heredity and sex''
* '' L’aventure humaine'', 1933 - ''The human adventure''
* ''La vie des libellules'', 1935 - ''The life of dragonflies''
* ''Insectes'', 1936 - ''Insects''
* ''La nouvelle biologie'', 1937 - ''The new biology''
* ''Biologie et médecine'', 1938 - ''Biology and medicine''
* ''Hérédité et racisme'', 1938 - ''Heredity and racism''
* ''Pensée d’un biologiste'', 1938 - ''Thoughts from a biologist''
* ''La vie et ses problèmes'', 1938 - ''Life and its problems''
* ''Science et génération'', 1940 - ''Science and generation''
* ''Les idées nouvelles de la génétique'', 1941 - ''New ideas in genetics''
* ''L’Homme, introduction à l’étude de la biologie humaine '', 1941 - ''Man, introduction to the study of human biology''
* ''L’Homme, maître de la vie'', 1941 - ''Man, master of life''
* ''Hommes de vérité 1942 - ''Men of truth''
* ''L’avenir de la biologie'', 1943 - ''The future of biology''
* ''La genèse de la vie, histoire des idées sur la génération spontanée '', 1943 - ''Genesis of life, a history of the ideas on spontaneous generation''
* ''La vie des vers à soie '', 1944 - ''The life of silkworms''
* ''Esquisse d’une histoire de la biologie '', 1945 - ''Sketch of a history of biology''
* ''L’avenir de la biologie'', 1946 - ''The future of biology''
* ''Qu’est-ce qu’un enfant ?'', 1946 - ''What is a child?''
* ''Charles Darwin '', 1947
* ''Nouvelles pensées d’un biologiste'', 1947 - ''New thoughts from a biologist''
* ''L’hérédité humaine '', 1948 - ''Human heredity''
* ''Hommes de vérité II '', 1948 - ''Men of truth II''
* ''La biologie et l’avenir humain'', 1949 - ''Biology and the human future''
* ''L’Homme devant la biologie'', 1949 - ''Man facing biology''
* ''La parthénogenèse, reproduction virginale chez les animaux'', 1949 - ''Parthenogenesis, virginal reproduction in animals''
* ''La parthénogenèse animale'', 1949 - ''Animal parthenogenesis''
* ''La génétique des batraciens'', 1951 - ''Batrachian genetics''
* ''Les grands courants de la biologie '', 1951 - ''Great trends in biology''
* ''Les origines de la biologie expérimentale et l’abbé Spallanzani '', 1951 - ''The origins of experimental biology and the abbott Spallanzani''
* ''L’hérédité humaine'', 1952 - ''Human heredity''
* ''Pages d’un moraliste '', 1952 - ''Pages by a moralist''
* ''Ce que nous apprennent les crapauds et les grenouilles'', 1953 - ''What toads and frogs teach us''
* ''La vie, cette aventure'', 1953 - ''Life, that adventure''
* ''Ce que je crois'', 1953 - ''What I believe''
* ''Instruire sur l’Homme'', 1953 - ''To instruct on Man''
* ''Notes d’un biologiste '', 1954 - ''Notes from a biologist''
* ''Les crapauds et les grenouilles et quelques grands problèmes biologiques'', 1955 - ''Toads, frogs and a few great problems in biology''
* ''Le problème biologique de l’individu'', 1955 - ''The biological problem of the individual''
* ''L’Homme en l’an 2000 '', 1956 - ''Man in the year 2000''
* ''Peut-on modifier l’Homme ?'', 1956 - ''Can we modify Man?''
* ''L’atomisme en biologie'', 1956- ''Atomism in biology''
* ''Bestiaire d’amour'', 1958 - ''A bestiary of love''
* ''Aux sources de la biologie'', 1958 - ''At the sources of biology''
* ''Anomalies des amphibiens anoures'', 1958 - ''Anomalies of anurian amphibians''
* ''Science fausse et fausses sciences'', 1958 - ''Erroneous science and false science''
* ''Les origines de la biologie expérimentale '', 1959 - ''Origins of experimental biology''
* ''Carnet d’un biologiste '', 1959 - ''Notepad of a biologist''
* ''Espoirs et inquiétudes de l’homme '', 1959 - ''The hopes and worries of Man''
==Biography==
* Marcel Migeo: ''Les Rostand'', Paris, Stock, [[1973]]. About Edmond, Rosemonde, Jean and Maurice Rostand.
==External links==
{{wikiquote}}
*[http://rostand.chez.tiscali.fr/ Jean Rostand "homme de vérité"]
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