Feb. 8, 1865: Mendel Reads Paper Founding Genetics

1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel’s intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism and grow a scientific revolution.
Mendel was born in 1822 and became an Augustinian monk, living at the monastery in Brünn, Moravia. (Moravia was then ruled [...]

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