Heredity east and west : Lysenko and world science / Julian Huxley.
- Julian Huxley
- Date:
- 1949
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Heredity east and west : Lysenko and world science / Julian Huxley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Postscript I When this book was already in proof, two important articles on the genetics controversy by two distinguished British scientists sympathetic to communism were pub¬ lished in the Modern Quarterly (Vol. 4, No. 3) : In De¬ fence of Genetics, by the geneticist Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, F.R.S., and The Biological Controversy in the Soviet Union and Its Implications, by the crystallographer and physicist Prof. J. D. Bernal, F.R.S. Professor Haldane does not deal with what I consider the main issue, namely the official banning of Mendelian genet¬ ics on the basis of a scientific party line. He is only concerned with an appraisal of the views of Lysenko and his follow¬ ers (which, he points out, has been made much more dif¬ ficult by ill-i*n/ormed criticism of [Mendelian] genetics by supporters of Lysenko in this country [Britain] ) He says that Lysenko's speech made him realize for the first time the idealistic character of Mendel's formula¬ tion of his results, because Mendel had spoken of the transmission in heredity of differentiating characters (as opposed to genetic units). However, whether on this point Mendel was or was not under the influence of Thomist philosophy, as Haldane suggests, is irrelevant to the sit- 223](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025328_0240.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
