Morganistadj.n.

1949 Science 22 Apr. 404/2 Lysenko stated that ‘..young scientists with an insight into questions of philosophy have in recent years come to realize that the Morganist views are utterly alien to the world outlook of Soviet people.’

1966 E. A. Carlson Gene xi. 95 The controversy..eventually erupted into a clear cut ‘Lysenkoist’ camp and a formal genetics camp, disparagingly referred to as ‘Morganist’.

1970 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 31 367 Serebrovskii, along with others, established the ‘Morganist’ school of Soviet Marxist biology.

1946 Science 18 Oct. 378/1 They made of Mendelism..a dogma in the image of their own rigid theory and then attacked it with the same weapons by which theirs is to be defended:..association of opponents' ideas with other repugnant views (Mendel–Morganists are bourgeois, fascist, believers in race inequality, etc.).]

1950 T. M. Sonneborn in Science 19 May 537 There are some faithful Morganists who try to deny the facts that overthrow Morganism.

1951 Biol. Abstr. 25 657/1 The author opposes what he describes as the ‘theories of the Mendelists and the Morganists’ that the origin of life on earth is an extraordinarily rare occurrence.

1970 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 31 367 By 1929 the Lamarckists finally appeared to be on the defensive, and the Morganists believed themselves to be the proper interpreters of the Marxist line in Soviet biology.

1992 Science 2 Oct. 25/2 First they sacked me as a ‘Morganist–Mendelist’, and when that didn't work, they sacked me because I was a ‘cosmopolite’ (Stalinist code for a Jew).