During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes,
and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped …

Twenty-first-century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the
power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for …

Solid state physics, the study of the physical properties of solid matter, was the most
populous subfield of Cold War American physics. Despite prolific contributions to consumer …

A pivotal skill that needs focus and concentration for efficient communication is speaking. It
is taken as one of the toughest skill for learning of language. However, the issue to attain …

An enduring legacy from the heyday of Mendelian genetics is talk of 'genes for'. Such talk
suggests straightforwardly that genes make characters. But for over a century, thoughtful …

Objections to the use of historical case studies for philosophical ends fall into two categories.
Methodological objections claim that historical accounts and their uses by philosophers are …

Historiographical analyses of the development of genetics in the first decade of the 20th
century have been to a great extent framed in the context of the Mendelian-Biometrician …

When two or more (groups of) researchers independently investigating the same domain
arrive at the same result, a multiple discovery occurs. The pervasiveness of multiple …

Abstract Gregor Mendel's paper “Experiments on Plant Hybrids”(1866) has become a
paradigmatic case in the historiography of the life sciences because production and …

A key component of Mendels work is what we now refer to as pleiotropy-when variation in
one gene gives rise to variation in multiple phenotypes. This study focuses on aiding genetic …