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...genetics nearly a generation. Indeed, when Izvestia last week belatedly revealed the death of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko at age 78 in a brief back-page announcement, his bitter legacy was still all too apparent. Only now are the biological sciences in the U.S.S.R. finally recovering from what the American geneticist I. Michael Lerner calls "the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science...
...there indeed is or was life on Mars. Shots of Fletcher's "eye"- or a scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man's view of himself, his world and the universe. In fact, Sagan and Stanford University Geneticist Joshua Lederberg have suggested that large organisms could have evolved in the cold and arid environment of Mars. Because a big animal has less surface area in relation to its volume than a smaller one, and because it is from an animal's surface that heat and moisture...
...Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes-are low in protein. "Believe me, the plant tastes good," says Plant Geneticist Theodore Hymowitz of the University of Illinois. "The flowers taste like mushrooms fried in oil. You can eat the whole thing like an ice cream cone...
...some criticisms seem to reflect a deliberate misreading of the book. A recent article on the editorial page of The Crimson compared Wilson to Herbert Spencer and attempted to find him guilty by association. This is purely a sophomoric game, just as it would be to compare a modern geneticist of Richard Lewontin's calibre to Lamarck, or to B.F. Skinner. Even during the late sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson to give so much space to such an ill-informed piece. But in those days...
Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...