The two most influential biologists in history, Darwin and Mendel, were contemporaries and yet the initial acceptance of their ideas suffered very different fates. In 1859, Darwin published his Origin of Species. It was an instant classic, with the initial printing selling out within a day of its publication. His work had an immediate impact that restructured biology. However, Darwin’s theory o...

Abstract The title of this playlist comes from the chorus Armand Hammer's “Rehearse with Ornette,” wherein billy woods repeats, “All that he seen burnt a hole in his brain/only came back to tell ’em bout them fucking flames.” This idea mind swallowed shock, bellowing out its truth, is deeply disturbing image and generative point entry into psychic terror black being afterlife slavery. Thus trac...

R.A. Fisher, in his 1929 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, noted that Charles Darwin believed in the theory of blending inheritance, and that this conditioned his views on variation and therefore on theories for the possible causes of evolution. Darwin realized that blending, or fusion, inheritance reduces variation and that all variability must be continually at work, or else nat...

Dr. RAYMOND PEARL (1912) was the first worker to suggest that sexlinked factors were involved in the inheritance of fecundity. PEARL used as a measure of fecundity the eggs produced during the winter period. He proposed that two major dominant factors were responsible for high egg production, one of which resided in the sex chromosome. GOODALE (1919) and HURST (1921) each failed to confirm the ...

Catalan's formula, for the portion of the inheritance that a legitimate child of a 19th-century deceased French gentleman should receive, is given a new proof (using Difference Operators), and generalized. Another, more computationally efficient, formula is also derived. Catalan's Formula Chrystal's classical text[Ch] (II, p. 416) contains the following charming exercise, due to Cata-lan[Ca]. B...

In 1957, Conrad H. Waddington published a paper in which he demonstrated the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a population in response to an environmental stimulus [1].[...].