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Lysenkoism |
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Lysenkoism the theories of the 20th-century Russian geneticist Trofim Lysenko, who argued that somatic and environmental factors have a greater influence on heredity than orthodox genetics has found demonstrable; now generally discredited. See also: BiologyHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There's an element of Lysenkoism [Lysenko was Stalin's favorite biologist] all tangled up with this pseudoscience and environmentalism. And the Soviet combination of utopianism, industrialization, despotism, and Lysenkoism owed as much to futurist fantasy as to Marx and tsarism. |
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