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Lysenkoism

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Ly·sen·ko·ism  (l-sngk-zm)
n.
A biological doctrine developed by Trofim Lysenko that maintains the possibility of inheriting environmentally acquired characteristics.
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.
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There's an element of Lysenkoism [Lysenko was Stalin's favorite biologist] all tangled up with this pseudoscience and environmentalism.
Billions Served by Bailey, Ronald / Reason
And the Soviet combination of utopianism, industrialization, despotism, and Lysenkoism owed as much to futurist fantasy as to Marx and tsarism.
Things to come by Lind, Michael / The National Interest
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