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From Heredity and Genetics: The Dialogue Continued
Mendel, “Pflanzen-Hybride”
When Austrian priest Gregor Mendel published this 1865 article about his experiments with peas, Darwin had just explained his own hypothesis about heredity. For Mendel, heredity was not a blending of traits, as Darwin thought, but the inheritance of discrete units of “characters” in specific ratios. Mendel’s discovery did not attract significant attention until the next century, when his view, rather than Darwin’s, became the basis for a new science of genetics.
Gregor Mendel (1822–1884). “Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybride,” Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn. Brünn: Vereines, 1865.
