Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenkothe son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born into a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Governorateon September 29, 1898. He later attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute, where he found himself interested in agriculture. Here he worked on a few different projects, one involving the effects of temperature variation on the life-cycle of plants. This later led him to consider how he might use this work to convert winter wheat into spring wheat. This process became known as...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 September 1898
CountryRussian Federation
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.