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On the site of Gregor Mendel’s experiments, CHYBIK + KRISTOF design a greenhouse informed by his work

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...
The Scientist

The man behind the peas

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote in __On the Origin of Species__ that "the laws governing inheritance are quite unknown." Unknown to him maybe, but three years earlier, an obscure Augustinian friar was ...
The New York Times

SPECIES-MAKING AND HEREDITY; Fascinating Story of Mendel's Discovery of the Principles which Have Since Been Known by His Name.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Nature

Mendel's Law: a Crucial Experiment

I SEE from the published account of a recent discussion at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association that the facts of Mendelian segregation are still disputed by the biometric school of ...