Boris Kozo-Polyansky

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 of the first to redefine cell theory.

Boris Kozo-Polyansky
Born
Boris Mikhailovich Kozo-Polyansky

(1890-01-20)20 January 1890
Ashgabat, Transcaspian Oblast, Russian Empire
Died21 April 1957(1957-04-21) (aged 67)
Voronezh, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow University
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • Moscow University
  • Voronezh State University
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