Mendel's Principles of Heredity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore the beginnings of genetic science and how heredity works across plants and humans. This classic work explains experiments, surprises, and the evolving ideas that shaped Mendelian biology.

This edition presents Bateson’s early investigations into how hybrid plants pass on traits, with careful observations on how hybrids can differ from parent types. It covers the methods researchers used to study hybridization, the surprising variety seen in offspring, and the challenges of forming broad rules from limited cases. You’ll also find discussion of how similar questions appear in humans, including what eye color can reveal about dominant and recessive inheritance. The author reflects on the limits of current theories and the careful, year‑by‑year work needed to build a reliable picture of heredity.

• How crosses between plant forms produce fresh combinations of traits


• What it means for offspring to be intermediate, nearer to one parent, or distinctly like the other


• Observations on fertility, seed production, and the role of pollen and egg cells


• Early ideas about Mendelian inheritance and its application to humans

Ideal for readers of the history of genetics and plant or animal breeders, this edition offers a window into the experimental spirit that underpins modern heredity study. It is a solid introduction to the questions and methods that sparked later, more definitive work in the field.

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