Mendel without Malthus, comrade

February 20, 2006 11:49 AM

I want to know more about the history of Russian biology--especially in the period from Darwin to Lysenko (roughly 75 years). I don't know any Russian, so the source has to be in English. Anyone know anything that would fit this description?
posted by onetreehill to Science & Nature (2 answers total)

If you want an overview with a lot of references to printed materials and authors, then the chapter on Russian Biological Science from this online paper gives a lot of potential referencing hunting fodder. The paper is not just a list of names and references, though, and contains information on the subject of Russian biology during that time period.

Hmm, the damn thing went offline just as a I was looking at it. So here's a Google cache version.
posted by mdevore at 1:41 PM on February 20, 2006

Response by poster: good stuff, mdevore. i appr. the ref.
posted by onetreehill at 1:53 PM on February 20, 2006