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Lysenko's ghost : epigenetics and Russia / Loren Graham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674969025
  • 0674969022
  • 0674089057
  • 9780674089051
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epigenetics and RussiaDDC classification:
  • 576.5/3 23
LOC classification:
  • QH438.5 .G73 2016eb
NLM classification:
  • QU 460
Online resources:
Contents:
The friendly siberian foxes -- The inheritance of acquired characteristics -- Paul Kammerer, enfant terrible of biology -- The great debate about human heredity in 1920s Russia -- Lysenko up close -- Lysenko�s biological views -- Epigenetics -- The recent rebirth of Lysenkoism in Russia -- Surprising effects of the new Lysenkoism -- Anti-Lysenko Russian supporters of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Summary: "Epigenetics, a new field in biology, has shown that in some instances organisms can inherit characteristics acquired by their ancestors during their lifetimes, a view that was discredited during most of the twentieth century. Trofim Lysenko, a Russian agronomist long considered a charlatan, was a strong advocate of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In the last few years a number of Russian science writers and scientists have claimed that epigenetics proves that Lysenko was right after all. This book evaluates that claim."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The friendly siberian foxes -- The inheritance of acquired characteristics -- Paul Kammerer, enfant terrible of biology -- The great debate about human heredity in 1920s Russia -- Lysenko up close -- Lysenko�s biological views -- Epigenetics -- The recent rebirth of Lysenkoism in Russia -- Surprising effects of the new Lysenkoism -- Anti-Lysenko Russian supporters of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

"Epigenetics, a new field in biology, has shown that in some instances organisms can inherit characteristics acquired by their ancestors during their lifetimes, a view that was discredited during most of the twentieth century. Trofim Lysenko, a Russian agronomist long considered a charlatan, was a strong advocate of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In the last few years a number of Russian science writers and scientists have claimed that epigenetics proves that Lysenko was right after all. This book evaluates that claim."--Provided by publisher.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2016).

In English.

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