At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants and the principles of inheritance resurfaced in the scientific community, thanks to a few intrepid botanists who had ...

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Trofim Lysenko, the mid-20th century anti-Mendel scientist and Stalin favorite, is back in the news. Under his government-supported ideological pseudoscientific system (eponymously named “Lysenkoism”) ...

Against the ways of nature -- The wild and the sown -- The power in the earth -- Genes and species -- Tinkering with evolution -- Making a chimera -- The product or the process -- Is it safe to eat? - ...