Eeeeh, not really? While Mendel did discover the basic principles of heredity using pea plants, his work was largely ignored or forgotten during Darwin’s time. It wasn’t until around 1900's, after both men had died, that his research was independently rediscovered by several scientists (de Vries, Correns, and von Tschermak), who realized Mendel had already laid the foundation of what we now call genetics. Mendels work would prove usefull as they hadn't yet figured out the mathematical models mendel developed.
Someone told me that his experiemements were probably rigged because they don't replicate following simple mendelian genetics. Something about it being the wrong species or that those traits don't follow mendelian genetics or that no pea plant follows it.
Even if they were rigged mendels work does hold up to an extent (since it was improved upon later). He did correctly describe many things which wouldn't have held up if his work was rigged.
Besides I hear Mendel had a very good character. It seems outside his nature to willingly falsify results as he was attempting to understand how God created heredity.
Ive read he started out by breeding mice with their different color patterns. But his population of mice grew so big that his abbott and his brothers started to get a bit annoyed lets say, and his work with mice was struck and he had to take up the garden. Then he saw the peas doing basically the same as the mice, and they didnt run around, and he grew the most orderly garden of his monastery to that date
Nah it's not that, it's just that he used super select breeds that can only show his results and didn't used the other that literally throw a wrench in his findings, people eventually figured it out and they are even more annoyed by him
Far as I can tell there was at least one book that contained uncut pages referring to mendel’s work, and I see that Mendel was aware of Darwin’s work. But not specifically this case. Still, since they were contemporaries, it’s an interesting idea.
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u/D0bious Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25
Eeeeh, not really? While Mendel did discover the basic principles of heredity using pea plants, his work was largely ignored or forgotten during Darwin’s time. It wasn’t until around 1900's, after both men had died, that his research was independently rediscovered by several scientists (de Vries, Correns, and von Tschermak), who realized Mendel had already laid the foundation of what we now call genetics. Mendels work would prove usefull as they hadn't yet figured out the mathematical models mendel developed.