EVOLUTION COMPRESSED IN TIME
Yu.E. Herbek, I.K. Zakharov, O.V. Trapezov, V.K. Shumny
Keywords: D.K. Belyaev, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, genetics, rate of evolution, destabilizing selection, variability, experimental domestication, antropogenesis, stress, aggression, altruism
Abstract
Academician Dmitry Belyaev was at the hub of activity in Russian biology. He took part in rehabilitation of genetics which was ostracized and persecuted for years in the USSR, in organization and development of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences including the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, and in establishing communications with the global genetic community. His concept of destabilizing selection had fifty years of experimental verification and now it keeps developing.
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