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...could. Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the Mendelian stock of a new breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dice's Mice | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Died. Dr. William Bateson, 66, distinguished British biologist, famed investigator of the Mendelian theory of heredity; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIDING CONTINENTS | 1/15/1926 | See Source »

...York authority, being asked whether he believed them to be scions of the Vikings, Mendelian "sports" of a darker native race, or just half-breeds, replied that he believed them to be myths. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, chief anthropologist of the U. S. National Museum at Washington, expressed the opinion that the blonds were "just plain albinos." If they should turn out to be of mixed white and Indian blood and should also hail from the San Bias region of Panama, that fact would shatter the proud tradition of tribal purity which the warlike San Bias Indians have so long maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Albinos? | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...York and Not So Long Ago, with overtones of Plots and Playwrights and Zoe Akins' The Varying Shore. A series of totally unrelated one-act plays involving incredible incidents in the life of the Minuit family are patched together and stretched across a framework of the Mendelian Law of inheritance, in order to demonstrate that blood will tell and that children are liable to take after their ancestors. The dodge by which historical flavor is achieved is hardly more subtle than having a character say: " Well, so this is 1852," together with an assiduous sprinkling of bustles, antimacassars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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