"LYSENKO, VIEWS OF NATURE AND SOCIETY  -
REDUCTIONIST BIOLOGY AS A KHRUSCHEVITE REVISIONIST WEAPON"



First published in book format in Toronto; published by Alliance in September 1993; and distributed in a small print run of 200. The book is  installed in sections that can be reached via the links in The Table of Contents below.


TABLE OF CONTENTS :
PART I A (VERY) SHORT HISTORY OF GENETIC THEORY  
PREFACE & INTRODUCTION:              PAGE  4-18 GO TO:  Lysenko-preface.html



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THE CENTRAL DOGMA                             19-24
EARLY GREEK SCIENCE AND THEORIES OF BIOLOGY 25-37
THE ARISTOTELIAN LEGACY TO ARABIC EUROPE 38-39
A CLASSIFICATION OF NATURE IN PRAISE OF GOD 39-43
ESTABLISHING THE CELLULAR THEORY OF LIFE 43-46
THE STATE OF BIOLOGY AS CAPITALISTS
CHANGED THE FEUDAL WORLD                                 47-49
LAMARCK AND HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION          50-55
DARWIN INCHES TOWARDS EVOLUTION                 56-57
ON NATURAL SELECTION                                             57-65




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lysenko2.htm
DARWIN'S DIFFERENCES WITH LAMARCK - SOFT, BLENDING INHERITANCE OR
HARD SEGREGATING INHERITANCE?                     66-71
GRADUALNESS, NATURAL SELECTION                  72-77
NOTIONS OF" STRUGGLE" IN DARWIN                  78-86
ON CHANCE                                                                     87-94
CONCLUSION: WE ARE ALL "DARWINISTS" NOW 95



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 lysenko3.htm
THE "FOUNDER OF MODERN GENETICS",
AUGUST WEISMANN                                                     96-100
GREGOR MENDEL & PARTICULATE BEARERS
OF HEREDITY                                                                  100-102
NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE,
R.A.FISHER AND GOOD DATA                                 103-108
JOHANNSEN FIGHTS RENEWED
WEISMANNISM-MENDELISM                                 107-111
THE SUICIDE OF PAUL KAMMERER                     112-114
TO CHROMOSOMAL THEORY OF INHERITANCE 115-117
MORGAN GENE THEORY REDUCES COMPLEXITY 118-123
THE NEW SYNTHESIS                                                 123-126
ORTHODOX MOLECULAR GENETICS                   127-129
EARLY 20 TH CENTURY UNORTHODOX GENETICS
THE GERMAN "ANTI-KERNMONOPOL" GROUPS 129-134
LOCUS OF CYTOPLASMIC GENETICS MOVES:
VICTOR JOLLOS' EXILE IN THE USA                     134-137
BARBARA MCCLINTLOCK &
THE FLEXIBLE GENOME                                         138-146
RICHARD GOLDSCHMIDT & SPECIATION         147-151



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WESTERN GENETICISTS ATTRACTED TO
ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS                             151-152
SONNEBORN, PARAMECIUM AND
ACQUIRED CHARACTERS                                     153-155
CHANCE REVISITED                                                155-162
THE CASE OF EDWARD STEELE                           163-164
POST NEW SYNTHESIS : WHERE TO?                 165-167
PART I : CONCLUSION                                            168-169




PART II. LYSENKO'S THEORIES
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  LysenkoPT2.htm

INTRODUCTION                                                                     170-171
1. LYSENKO AND THE CHROMOSOMES                         171-176
NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE                                    176-178.
2.DIRECTED CHANGE                                                          179-180
           A) HYBRID VIGOUR                                                   180-181
           a) Does Heterosis Exist?                                                181-184
           b) The Mechanism of Heterosis                                     184-186
          c) The practical import of Heterosis in the USSR;
            role of hybrid corn.                                                         186-191
         B) VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION-GRAFTING         191-193
        C)  INTERVENTIONS AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES.   195-198
3. THEORY AND PRACTICE                                                 199
4.THE MATERNAL ENVIRONMENT                                 200-204
5. SPECIATION.                                                                    204-207
6.THE ORIGINS OF LIFE: OPARIN, DIALECTICIAN
REFUTES LEPESHINKAIA: REDUCTIONIST                  208-212




PART III. ON METHOD IN BIOLOGY
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  LysenkoPT3.htm

IGNORING THE ROLE OF CHANGE                                 213-217
INTERPENETRATION OF OPPOSITES                             217-219
TRANSFORMATION OF QUANTITY
INTO QUALITY, (NEGATION OF THE NEGATION           219-220




PART IV. THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND BIOLOGY :FOR THESE SECTIONS BELOW GO TO:
 LysenkoPT4.htm
LENIN, ULTRA-LEFTISM AND SCIENCE: The Political Climate To Science and
Agriculture In The USSR 1917-36.                                                                                   221-231
ULTRA-LEFTISM IN LINGUISTICS, AND THE COMMUNIST ACADEMY         231-243
PERIOD OF COLLECTIVIZATION, The Role of Ultra-Leftism                                  244-248
COLLECTIVISATION- YEARS OF FAMINE?                                                             249-252
THE CRISIS IN POST WAR AGRICULTURE & "Stalin Plan" Transform Nature   253-61
STRUGGLE ON AGRARIAN POLICY. Stalin Vs Khrushchev &  Voznosensky        262-265
THE LENINGRAD AFFAIR. Voznosenky's Economic Theses.                                     266-280
The LYSENKO DEBATES: Attitude of  CPSU(B), Zhdanov & Stalin to Lysenko:       281-299 1. The Preformationists                                 21
2. The Cell and DNA and the Extended Phenotype
as seen by Cronin                                            22
3. Hippocrates and Democritius                     35
4. Aristotle                                                       36
5. Discorides : De Materia Medica,
Wild Blackberry                                             37
6. Chance and the Playing card                     92
7. Mendelian cross.                                     101
8. Heterophylly in Ivy Hederex                  107
9. Two Forms of a flower, Primula veris.
Heterostyly, for cross pollination.               183
10. Map USSR                                             190
11. Njoku's experiment with Ipomoea caerulea 198
12. Table 1. Proportion of Sown Area USSR 253
13. table 2. Agricultural Yields USSR
versus USA 1926-1962                                 260 
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