Comments on: Happy Birthday Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/20/happy-birthday-gregor-johann-m/ Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jim Thomerson https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/20/happy-birthday-gregor-johann-m/#comment-505421 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:00:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/20/happy-birthday-gregor-johann-m/#comment-505421 It seems to me that the evolution of genetics from the rediscovery of Mendel’s work, around 1900, to the present state of the science has been fairly smooth and incremental rather than involving big Kuhnian paradigm shifts.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/20/happy-birthday-gregor-johann-m/#comment-505420 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:59:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/20/happy-birthday-gregor-johann-m/#comment-505420 Mendel laid the scientific groundwork for the genotype/phenotype bifurcation that underlies all current work in biology. In a sense he “rescued” Darwin’s theories by finding a mechanism for variation and natural selection.

–bks

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