When Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in 1859, it sparked a huge controversy. Most famous was the clash between Darwin’s friend and self-styled “bulldog,” the anatomist Thomas Henry ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn’t Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology ...

One of the great ‘what if’ questions that has fascinated historians of biology is how differently Darwinian evolution would have been received had Darwin known of the work of Gregor Mendel, the ...

NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Seeds of hero worship. To be a doctor ; To be an explorer ; To be a husband -- A tale of two books. Darwin's book : The ...

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Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn't Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology ...