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BATESON, William (1861 – 1926)

BATESON, William (1861 – 1926)

1861 – 1926

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1894 CE

#237

Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity in the origin of species.

Bateson was convinced that discontinuity was the more important type of variation among animals and plants “in some unknown way a part of their nature and not directly dependent upon natural selection at all&rdq…

1902 CE

#241

Mendel’s principles of heredity: A defence.

The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel’s “Versuch über Pflanzen-Hybriden” from the J…

1902 CE–1910 CE

#13048

Reports to the evolution committee of the Royal Society. Reports I-V. 1902-1909.

In 1908 Archibald Garrod delivered the Croonian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians in London on inborn errors of metabolism. In his studies of the rare disease alkaptonuria, which affects about one in one mil…

1906 CE

#242.3

Further experiments on inheritance in sweet peas and stocks; preliminary account.

W. Bateson, E. R. Saunders and R. C. Punnett noted the phenomena of linkage of genes.