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Comments by carbonbasedlifeform


1. 'In Our Time': Trofim Lysenko

Comment #191394 by carbonbasedlifeform on June 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Funnily enough, I first heard of Lysenko in chapter two of "The Day of the Triffids", one of my favourite books. The book seemed to be suggesting that triffids were the result of Lysenko's outlandish experiments. According to Carl Sagan, Lysenko is the reason why Russia is so backward in biology and genetics today.