Mendel to Morphogenesis

Mendel might get dizzy.

Building on Mendel

Twelve months after the first successes of an ambitious project to commemorate Mendel in the abbey where he carried out his work, efforts are now turning to the gardens, perhaps some of the most intellectually fruitful patches of ground in the world. Restoration work in the abbey, in the beautiful Czech city of Brno, reveals a building in which little has changed since Mendel’s time where it is...

Did Mendel cheat?

Darwin, Mendel, and Galton.

THIS paper was never meant to be a centenary address, in fact until I started to prepare it I did not realize that the original Darwin-Wallace communication to the Linnean Society was read in I858. An interest in human genetics led me to seek more knowledge of the lives of the three men who seemed to me to have been the founders of our present understanding of heredity. Darwin's evidence in fav...

Mendel, 150 years on.

Mendel's paper 'Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden' is the best known in a series of studies published in the late 18th and 19th centuries that built our understanding of the mechanism of inheritance. Mendel investigated the segregation of seven gene characters of pea (Pisum sativum), of which four have been identified. Here, we review what is known about the molecular nature of these genes, which...