George Mendel and his garden of peas.
2007-08-09 09:59:36 · 15 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Did I write George. It's a typo.
2007-08-09 10:01:08 · update #1
Mendel lived around the same time as the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) and many have considered 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 1930s, by which time statistics had become advanced enough to cope with genetics and evolution.
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2007-08-09 10:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, Gregor Mendel discovered the principles of hereditary genetics, not natural selection.
And, you should know that back then, many scientific discoveries were by men of the Church - they were the only people who had a butt load of money (stolen from parishoners) and a butt load of time to waste, while everyone else in Medieval Europe was busy trying to find something to eat on a daily basis.
2007-08-09 10:04:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you got it confused. Mendel discovered Genetics and inheritance. It is not selection that was his discovery.
He was important and Darwin had no idea about Genetics when he wrote the Origin. Darwin knew that the traits had to be passed to the offspring but he had no mechanism or pattern to explain that. Your Monk figured out the start of genetics, not natural selection.
2007-08-09 10:06:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, Gregor Mendel.
2007-08-09 10:02:42 · answer #4 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gregor Mendel did not discover the theory of Natural Selection. He discovered the principles of inheritance.
PS - It is also speculated that he *might have* fudged his data because before applied statistics was not yet introduced as fundamental component of experimentation.
2007-08-09 10:06:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Gregor Mendel discovered allelic assortment, the major mechanism by which traits redistribute in populations as determined by natural selection, artificial selection and sexual selection.
2007-08-09 10:33:16 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I knew about Gregor Mendel and his genetic studies on peas. I learned about it as a kid in school. He did a lot of his studies in a monastery garden, and is known as the "father of modern genetics".
2007-08-09 10:03:48 · answer #7 · answered by solarius 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I know Gregor Mendel discovered genetics... That was fifth grade science, and something many posters here don't remember....
2007-08-09 10:05:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-08-09 10:02:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Natural selection is different from genetics. And this weakens evolution how exactly?
2007-08-09 10:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋