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2024-12-01 16:23 UTC
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org No, when it was published, it wasn't read much at all. But in the year 1900, DeVries, Correns and Tschermak all rediscovered his work while working on similar questions, and they all credited him in their foundational works. I read it in college, and it's beautiful and elegant in a way that few modern books are.
Sorry, I just hate to see modern textbooks or (sigh) Richard Dawkins getting attention over the actual founders of our science.
https://www.genome.gov/25520238/online-education-kit-1900-rediscovery-of-mendels-work
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@hydropsyche@ecoevo.social 2024-12-01 16:30
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org Reading over your updated page, it seems like we just have different interests. For looking things up, all modern biology textbooks are basically interchangeable, and I know because I've been on textbook selection committees many times and looked at so many of them. They're written by committees, each with their own biases, and they all read that way. I wouldn't bother putting any of them on a "best of" list. I mostly use OpenStax in my classes so my students don't have to pay.