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A CALL to reject in its entirety forty years work in a science which has engaged widespread attention and earned distinction for many, including a Nobel laureate, is both very unusual and very disturbing. Yet this is what Lyssenko and his followers at the Russian Genetical Conference of 1939 would have us do1 ; and, what is still more disturbing, no one other than those directly engaged in genetical research has found it desirable actively to oppose Lyssenko's views. Indeed his allegations have been repeated, and, it would appear, supported, in Great Britain2.
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MATHER, K. GENETICS AND THE RUSSIAN CONTROVERSY. Nature 149, 427–430 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149427a0
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