Word: mendelist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter had not troubled him unduly as long as the Russian's unproved theories remained merely that. Now, after years of unbudging loyalty to the party line, it suddenly occurred to Haldane that the official Soviet position on the vexed matter of genetics was nonsense. "I am a Mendelist-Morganist," he was later to exclaim plaintively. He had accepted the stifling grip of dictatorship on the spirit of a people who had given birth to Tolstoy, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. But Haldane finally choked on what was essentially a split hair-a technical scientific point...
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