Word: gregorer
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HARVARD PRINCETONMoseley, Cutter, Hovenanian, l.w. r.w., Willis, Bissell, WoodkullFord, Roberts, Dewey, c. c., Savage, Covey, SylvesterCarr, Mochem, Hallowell, r.w. r.w., Lawson, Cook, StoninghamClaflin, Brown, l.d. l.d., HolsappleJ. Roberts, Allen, r.d. r.d., Barrett, BurkeEmerson, g. g., Gregor...
HARVARD PRINCETONMoseley, l.w. r.w., LawsonFord, c. c., SavageCarr, r.w. l.w., WillisJ. Roberts, l.d. r.d., BarrettClaflin, r.d. l.d., HolsappleWaldinger, g. g., Gregor...
...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
...Monk Mendel communicated to the Brünn Society for the Study of Natural Science. None of his hearers seemed much interested and none asked questions. For 35 years the paper lay buried in the society's transactions. There is no evidence that Charles Darwin ever heard of Gregor Johann Mendel...
...ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice...