Biology
- August 7 - Teaching and research in Mendelian genetics is prohbited in the Soviet Union in favour of Lysenkoist theories of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
- October 5 - Delegates to a conference organised by Sir Julian Huxley at Fontainebleau agree to formation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
- November 20 - The Takahē, generally thought to have been extinct for fifty years, is rediscovered by Geoffrey Orbell near Lake Te Anau in the South Island of New Zealand.
- Publication of Fairfield Osborne's Our Plundered Planet, a Malthusian critique of human environmental destruction.
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