Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

Journal of Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Howard, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIST; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; FLOWER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIMULACEAE;

CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PRIMULA;

EID: 61649085631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14754924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/jbiol123     Document Type: Note

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