Part LII: Meiosis, Mendel’s Principles, Representations

In the last essay (Part LI), we found that Mendel’s brilliant work was lost for some thirty two years. The April 1900 issue of Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft (Reports of the German Botanical Society), University of Amsterdam’s botany professor Hugo de Vries (1848-1935) reported that he had previously discovered the same principles of heredity that […]