Lysenko’s Ghost : : Epigenetics and Russia / / Loren Graham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Graham, Loren,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 28 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674969025; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674969025
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Loren Graham.

Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko’s claims.