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Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

Name: Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence
ISBN: 9781779793836

William Bateson,

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Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence

William Bateson,

About this book

Imagine genetics before it had a name — a world where inheritance was a blur, blending like paint, until Gregor Mendel's discrete ratios cracked the door open. In Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence, William Bateson steps into that intellectual storm, staking his claim as Mendel's champion and transforming confusion into a new science.

Bateson begins by translating Mendel's original experiments on pea hybridisation and his later work on hawkweed hybrids — then thrusts into the fray with a passionate defense of Mendel's rules. He confronts critics like W. F. R. Weldon, dissecting objections about dominance, variation, and statistical anomalies, and shows why Mendel's "particles" of inheritance dared to challenge the blending model of the day.

This is more than scientific polemic. It's Bateson's battle cry: for discreet units, for predictive power, for a new genetic logic that eventually underpins evolution, breeding, and biology's modern foundations. With each chapter, the world of heredity becomes less mysterious and more magical — suggesting that underneath every color, trait, or disease lies a hidden structure waiting to be decoded.

Still widely read today, this work remains a milestone not just for geneticists but for anyone curious about how science overturns tradition and how ideas change how we see life itself.

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