WONDER HORSES AND MENDELISM

Mending Mendelism

Teaching .Mendelism

regor Mendel is rightly credited as being the "father of modern " He presented the results of his pea at a of his local natural history society in two lectures 1865. His paper was published in the proceedings of the society the next year. From his breeding experiments with the edible pea, he recog­ nized the phenomena of what we call dominance and recessiveness, segregation of assortment of dif...

Wonder and the Patient

Is it possible to distinguish, as sociologist Arthur Frank proposes, an 'ideal of wonder' within which ill persons could recover some of their former sense of life and flourishing, even within the constraints of ill-health? Beyond this, are there more general benefits in terms of health and well-being that could accrue from cultivating an openness to wonder? In this paper I will first outline a...

Spreading Knowledge and Wonder

Fans of TV science programs were likely captivated by the documentary about human evolution that premiered on PBS stations in 2014. ‘‘Your Inner Fish’’ provided a guided tour of the human body and where its many features came from— color vision and brain anatomy from primates, teeth and skin and hair from ancient reptiles, necks and fingers and eyes from primordial fish. The three-part series c...

Witnessing, wonder, and hope.

This article is based on a keynote address I gave in South Africa at the Eighth International Conference of The South African Association of Marital and Family Therapy. The phenomenon of witnessing is explored in a number of contexts, and a distinction is made between witnessing with and without awareness, and from an empowered or a disempowered position. I propose that the African philosophy o...