Lynn Margulis and Boris Kozo-Polyansky: How the Symbiogenesis was translated from Russian

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104316

Lynn Margulis and Boris Kozo-Polyansky: How the Symbiogenesis was translated from Russian - Consensus

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Lynn Margulis and Boris Kozo-Polyansky: How the Symbiogenesis was translated from Russian

V. Fet

Dec 4, 2020

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Bio Systems

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Key Takeaway: Boris Kozo-Polyansky's early work on symbiogenesis was translated into English by Lynn Margulis, who played a key role in organizing this "horizontal transfer" of knowledge.

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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.

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