Mutation: The History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Mutation: The History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics

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The rediscovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s mid-19th century breeding experiments with pea plants initiated a major shift in thinking about the nature of mutation from Darwin’s fluctuating variations to a discontinuous model of evolution by mutation.

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