What They Talked About When They Talked About Lysenko
This paper is an excerpt for deJong-Lambert's collective
biography of five geneticists—Theodosius Dobzhansky, Leslie
Clarence Dunn, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Huxley and Hermann J.
Muller—considered in terms of their reaction to Soviet
agronomist Trofim D. Lysenko. In the 1930s, Lysenko launched
a campaign which resulted in a ban on genetics in the Soviet
Union and its allies in the early decades of the Cold War. The
careers of Dobzhansky, Dunn, Haldane, Huxley and Muller
coincided with some of the most important developments in the
history of Twentieth Century biology, including the synthesis of
genetics and Natural Selection and the rise of eugenics as a
popular movement. The two chapters deJong-Lambert will
present describe the origins of the friendship between Huxley
and Muller, as well as their mutual fascination with the "Soviet
experiment."
Date:
February 5, 2013
Time:
12:30 PM
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2:00 PM
College:
Bronx Community College
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Columbia University
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