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The Monk in the Garden
The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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The Monk in the Garden
The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
About this book
This acclaimed biography of 19th century scientist Gregor Mendel is "a fascinating tale of the strange twists and ironies of scientific progress" (
Publishers Weekly).
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
In The Monk in the Garden, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly chronicles the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Tending to his pea plants in a monastery garden, the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel discovered the foundational principles of genetic inheritance. But Mendel's work was ignored during his lifetime, even though it answered the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species.
Thirty-five years after his death, Mendel's work was saved from obscurity when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off his groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. From the perplexing silence that greeted his discovery to his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics, Henig presents a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Though little is known about Mendel's life, she "has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are" ( Washington Post Book World).
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
In The Monk in the Garden, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly chronicles the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Tending to his pea plants in a monastery garden, the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel discovered the foundational principles of genetic inheritance. But Mendel's work was ignored during his lifetime, even though it answered the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species.
Thirty-five years after his death, Mendel's work was saved from obscurity when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off his groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. From the perplexing silence that greeted his discovery to his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics, Henig presents a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Though little is known about Mendel's life, she "has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are" ( Washington Post Book World).
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
A:2Aa:a ratio, 91
AABB hybrid, 128
AaBb hybrid, 127–28, 129
aAbB hybrid, 129
aAbb hybrid, 129
aabb hybrid, 129
Aa hybrid, 86–87
acquired traits, inheritance of, 115–16
Agricultural Society, Brünn, 22–23
alleles, 230
allelomorph, 230, 238
Alt, Antonin, 135
Amsterdam Botanical Institute, 183
ancestral inheritance, law of, 114
animal experimentation, 203
Anlage, Correns’s use of term, 191
anthers, 71–72
apomixis, 159
Aristotle, 96
artificial selection, 109; natural selection and, 210–11
atavism, 204
Augustine, St., 30
Augustinians, 13, 23, 30
Auspitz, Josef, 121, 136
B
backcross, 83, 127–29; recessive, 128–29; double-recessive, 128–29, 191, 274
Balanoglossus, 206, 207
Balfour, Francis Maitland, 208
Barina, Franciscus Salesius, 250
barnacles, Charles Darwin and, 111
Bateson, Beatrice Durham, 199–200, 209–10, 278, 280; marriage of, 211–13; as husband’s assistant, 217–19; and “Dead Book,” 219
Bateson, Gregor, 214
Bateson, John, 213
Bateson, Martin, 213
Bateson, William, 1–4, 5, 7, 186–88, 194–98, 199–233, 236–40, 245–49, 259, 279–80; discovers Mendel’s article, 1–2, 195, 196; and rediscovery of Mendel, 1–4, 5, 7, 186–88, 194–98; travels to Brünn, 3–4; coins term “genetics,” 4, 226–27, 239, 250; and Hugo De Vries, 186, 187–88, 194–95, 197–98, 217, 228; and discontinuous variation, 186–87; critique of biometricians, 196, 200–204, 220, 229; Mendel’s Principles of Heredity: A Defence, 196; presidential address to British Association for Advancement of Science, 200–202, 219–20, 29; and W. F. R. Weldon, 203, 204, 205–11, 221–24, 225–26; Materials for the Study of Variation, 209; marriage of, 211–13; at Merton House, 213–14; and R. C. Punnett, 214–16; assistants of, 216–19; and Hurst’s research data, 221–24; advocacy of genetics as field, 227–30; at International Conferences on Hybridization and Plant Breeding, 228–29; and terminology for genetics, 229–30, 239; modification of Mendel’s terminology, 230; lectures in the United States, 231–32; and Thomas Hunt Morgan, 231–33, 237–38; and chromosome theory,...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue: Spring 1900
- Act One
- In the Glasshouse
- Southern Exposure
- Between Science and God
- Breakdown in Vienna
- Back to the Garden
- Crossings
- First Harvest
- Eves Homunculus
- The Flowering of Darwinism
- Garden Reflections
- Full Moon in February
- Interlude
- The Silence
- “My Time Will Come”
- Act Two
- Synchronicity
- Mendel Redux
- The Monk’s Bulldog
- A Death in Oxford
- Inventing Mendelism
- A Statue in Mendelplatz
- Epilogue: Another Spring
- Acknowledgments
- Notes and Selected Readings
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH