Lynn Margulis and Boris Kozo-Polyansky: How the Symbiogenesis was translated from Russian
Abstract
This contribution details the complex history of the early work by Boris Kozo-Polyansky (1924) that became available in English translation 86 years after it was published in Russian. The great American naturalist Lynn Margulis-whose serial endosymbiosis theory was presciently predated by Kozo-Polyansky by four decades-was instrumental in organizing this resurrection and 'horizontal transfer' of knowledge, forgotten by that time even in Russia.
- Publication:
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BioSystems
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104316
- Bibcode:
- 2021BiSys.19904316F
- Keywords:
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- Symbiogenesis;
- Eukaryotes;
- Boris Kozo-Polyansky;
- Lynn Margulis;
- Russia;
- History of science