Today Gregor Mendel is a towering hero of biology, and yet during his own lifetime his ideas about heredity were greeted with deafening silence. In hindsight, it’s easy to blame his obscurity on ...

Plant and animal genes were Gregor Mendel's original focus, his ideas later made sense of our complex human workings, too, kicking off genetics.

Disputed Inheritance Gregory Radick (University of Chicago Press) IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable ...