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What did Charles Darwin understand of acomplish about heredity and Genetics.Did he originate the idea for Mendell?

2006-06-05 11:21:43 · 3 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Darwin didn't even know of Mendel when he first considered the origin of species, although they lived around the same time and could have compared notes if they ever met. But thing is that they didn't meet so Darwin didn't consider evolution in terms of genetics, only in terms of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Since Mendel was the first one to study heredity in terms of genetics, then he's the sole father of genetics as a science.

2006-06-12 08:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by flammable 5 · 1 1

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20[1], 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian abbot who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics.

Mendel, Darwin and Galton

Bust of Mendel at Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno, Czech Republic.Mendel lived around the same time as the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) and many have fantasized about a historical evolutionary synthesis of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics during their lifetimes. Mendel had read a German translation of Darwin's Origin (as evidenced by underlined passages in the copy in his monastery), after completing his experiments but before publishing his paper. Some passages in Mendel's paper are Darwinian in character, evidence that The Origin of Species influenced Mendel's writing. Darwin did not have a copy of Mendel's paper, but he did have a book by Focke with references to it. The leading expert in heredity at this time was Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton who had mathematical skills that Darwin lacked and may have been able to understand the paper had he seen it. In any event, the modern evolutionary synthesis did not start until the 1920s, by which time statistics had become advanced enough to cope with genetics and evolution.

2006-06-05 11:28:38 · answer #2 · answered by FishRN 3 · 0 0

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2016-12-08 17:29:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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