Levins & Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows
by Louis Proyect
21 May 2002 19:40 UTC
>Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins & Lewontin, _The Dialectical
>Biologist_. They don't treat Lysenko at all like this. See Chapter 7,
>"The Problem of Lysen
>if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
>himself, who was simply updating Lamarck in a period when the alternative
>Darwin-Mendel theory hadn't completely taken hold, even in the U.S. The
>problem was that Lysenko's theory became The Party Line, a line which h
LP:> Yes, of course. There is another side to Lysenko. In fact Stephen Jay
Gould treats him with considerable respect in one of his essays although I
can't remember the technical details.<
if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
himself, who was simply updatin
>Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins & Lewontin, _The Dialectical
>Biologist_. They don't treat Lysenko at all like this. See Chapter 7,
>"The Problem of Lysenkoism." There were many elements involved, and it
>was no matter of mere quackery.
>
>Carrol
Yes, of course. There is another side t
Louis Proyect wrote:
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> I don't know whether Lysenko's reputation revolved around quick, technical
> solutions. I was under the impression that he was infamous for quackery
> under pressure from Stalin.
Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins & Lewontin, _The Dialectical
Biologist_. T
