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Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky (Russian: Борис Михайлович Козо-Полянский; 20 January 1890 – 21 April 1957) was a Soviet and Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist, best known for his seminal work, Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution, which was the first work to place the theory of symbiogenesis into a Darwinian evolutionary context, as well as one ...
Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890–1957) graduated from Moscow University and in 1918 joined a Soviet university in his native Voronezh where he became a vice-president as well as director of the local botanical garden.
Jan 1, 2021 · Since Kozo-Polyansky's work was never translated to any foreign language. Margulis knew only his few quotes given to her by Takhtajan—who was a student of Kozo-Polyansky, and one of a few who continued to popularize his ideas in Russia (Takhtajan, 1973). Kozo-Polyansky died in 1957 in provincial Voronezh, where he taught biology since the 1920s.
- Victor Fet
- 2021
Jul 20, 2010 · Last month, we published Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution by Soviet-era Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky. Part scientific treatise, part historical detective work, the book resurrects a lost classic of evolutionary theory along with its fascinating backstory. The volume’s co-editors, Victor Fet and Lynn Margulis, argue that Kozo-Polyansky’s theories—now recognized as true ...
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 ...
- Victor Fet
- 2021
Jan 1, 2021 · Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky (January 20, 1890 – April 21, 1957) was born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, then a part of the Russian Empire, in a family of a military officer, and moved to Voronezh, Russia in his early youth. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1914 at the age of 24 and then returned to Voronezh.
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Kozo- Polyansky’s Life Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo- Polyansky (1890– 1957) graduated from Moscow University before the Rus sian Revolution of February 1917 and the Bolshevik coup- d’état that followed it (October 1917). In his native Voronezh, in 1918, he joined a new Soviet university cobbled together from the faculty of Yuriev
