Science: How to Liquidate Heredity

The science of genetics is out of date and had better be revised or abandoned. Geneticists, fussing around for the last century with colored sweet peas and subnormal fruit flies, are out of touch with the real world.

These rude views are advanced in a new book called Heredity and Its Variability, by the U.S.S.R.'s T. D. Lysenko (King's Crown Press; 50ยข). In the ancient heredity v. environment feud, Comrade Lysenko is definitely an environment man.

The characteristics of a plant or animal variety, according to old-fashioned geneticists, are passed down from generation to generation. Hybrids get their qualities from their parents, mixing...

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