Today, Gregor Mendel and his pea plants are part of the canon of modern science. Every high school biology student learns the story of the monk who cross-bred pea plants in the abbey gardens and ...

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 ...

Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn’t appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost ...

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 ...

This Special Issue celebrates Mendel’s 200th birthday by focusing on exceptions to the Mendelian ‘laws’. Discovery in science is often driven forward more by exceptions than by rules. In genetics, ...

Questions about bias and skewed experiments have circulated for more than 100 years regarding Mendel's famous research on pea genes. Gregor Mendel is one of the most important figures in science.

Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed 'decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of 'founder of genetics.'' So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday ...