Lysenko’s Ghost

Epigenetics and Russia

Loren Graham

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ISBN 9780674089051

Publication Date: 04/11/2016

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224 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. The Friendly Siberian Foxes
2. The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
3. Paul Kammerer, Enfant Terrible of Biology
4. The Great Debate about Human Heredity in 1920s Russia
5. Lysenko Up Close
6. Lysenko’s Biological Views
7. Epigenetics
8. The Recent Rebirth of Lysenkoism in Russia
9. Surprising Effects of the New Lysenkoism
10 Anti-Lysenko Russian Supporters of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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