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Mendel's principles of heredity: A defence

Chapter 1: MENDEL’S PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY A DEFENCE
By William Bateson
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The author mounts a systematic defence of Mendel’s experimental findings, reproducing translations of the original hybridisation papers and summarising their methods and results. The text explains the consistent patterns of hereditary transmission observed in controlled crosses, articulates the concept of discrete heritable factors and their predictable segregation and combination in progeny, addresses contemporary criticisms point by point, and comments on experimental technique. The volume concludes with notes, references, and suggestions for further experiments, emphasising the practical and theoretical implications for the scientific study of heredity and evolution.

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Title: Mendel's principles of heredity: A defence

Author: William Bateson

Gregor Mendel

Release date: November 16, 2022 [eBook #69362]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: University Press, 1902

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MENDEL’S
PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY

London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE,
AND
H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C.
Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.
Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.
New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
[All Rights reserved.]
GREGOR MENDEL
Abbot of Brünn
Born 1822. Died 1884.

From a photograph kindly supplied by the Very Rev. Dr Janeischek, the present Abbot.

MENDEL’S
PRINCIPLES OF HEREDITY
A DEFENCE

BY
W. BATESON, M.A., F.R.S.
WITH A TRANSLATION OF MENDEL’S ORIGINAL
PAPERS ON HYBRIDISATION.
CAMBRIDGE:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
1902
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.