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This chapter explores the decline of “chromosomal mutation” in both the US and USSR as an important but heretofore unremarked casualty of Lysenkoism. I explore how chromosomal mutations came under fire in both the US and the USSR, despite having previously been accepted as evolutionarily significant types of mutation, as a result of the competing genetic geopolitics of Lysenkoism. As Lysenkoists focused on the phenotype, American geneticists focused on the genotype, and the focus on chromosomes and a level of chromosomal mutation was lost.
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Campos, L. (2017). Dialectics Denied: Muller, Lysenkoism, and the Fate of Chromosomal Mutation. In: deJong-Lambert, W., Krementsov, N. (eds) The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39179-3_6
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