Heredity and Its Variability

Authors

T. D. Lysenko

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Description

Lysenko, T. Heredity and its variability, 1945

The classic of Stalinist aberrant genetic theory, horticulturist Lysenko rejected orthodox genetics in favor of the theories of those of the Russian horticulturist I. V. Michurin. Among his theories were that wheat raised under certain conditions produce seeds of rye and that theoretical biology must be fused with Soviet agricultural practice. He was the total autocrat of Soviet biology from 1948 through 1953, and believed that through inherited characteristics Stalinism would create a 'new man'. Lysenko held that heredity can be changed by husbandry, a theory that had disastrous impact on Soviet agriculture. He was dismissed from his post as director of the Soviet Institute of Genetics.

See also Lysenkoism Against Genetics: The Meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of August 1948, Its Background, Causes, and Aftermath

Translated from the Russian by Theodosius Dobzhansky

Publication Date

1945

Publisher

King's Crown Press

City

New York

Recommended Citation

Lysenko, T. D., "Heredity and Its Variability" (1945). Pamphlets, Offprints and Reprints. 116.
https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/pamphlets-offprints-and-reprints/116