feature: How Mendel started genetics by getting it mostly wrong
Apr 26th, 2010
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Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn’t appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost instantly went to work demonstrating that Mendel’s Laws were wrong—or at least applied to such a narrow subset of inheritance that it was nearly impossible to generalize them.
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