DMITRY KONSTANTINOVICH BELYAEV: EVOLUTION COMPRESSED TO A HUMAN LIFETIME

Abstract

Academician Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyaev was in the focus of events in Russian biology. Above all, he participated in the resurrection of genetics, which had been tabooed for years in the USSR; in the organization and development of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, including its Institute of Cytology and Genetics; and in establishing communications with the global genetic community. His concept of destabilizings election has passed through ahalf-century test and is still in development.

Keywords

• d.k. belyaev
• institute of cytology and genetics
• siberian branch of the ussr academy of sciences
• genetics
• rate of evevolution
• destabilizing selection
• variability
• experimental domesticacation
• human evolution
• stress