RE: Re: Levins & Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

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 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 had
state power behind it. Those who doubted, suffered.
JD