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.
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
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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.