Molecules are not enough
John Maynard Smith, 6 February 1986
The Dialectical Biologist
by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin.
Harvard, 303 pp., £18.50, August 1985,0 674 20281 3 Show More
by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin.
Harvard, 303 pp., £18.50, August 1985,
“... caused Russian biology damage from which it has not yet recovered, even thirty years later. Levins and Lewontin address these events, as they must. They do not (unlike some Maoists) claim that Lysenko was right: ‘Far from overthrowing traditional genetics and creating a new science,’ they write, Lysenkoism ‘cut short the pioneering work of Soviet ... ”
