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Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

Journal of biology - 1 Jan 2009

Howard Jonathan C

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Darwin's focus on small quantitative variations as the raw material of evolution may have prevented him from discovering the laws of inheritance.

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PMID: 19291260
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol123
PMCID: PMC2687777

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