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"Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But they may not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book On the Origin of Species, published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance for recognition failed utterly, and he died a lonely and disappointed man.".
"Thirty-five years later, his work was rescued from obscurity in a single season, the spring of 1900, when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off Mendel's groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance.".
"The silence that greeted Mendel's discovery and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics make up a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Telling the story as it has never been told before, Robin Marantz Henig has crafted a narrative that evokes Mendel's life and work and the fate of his ideas as they made their perilous way toward the light of day.
The Monk in the Garden is about a little-known chapter in the history of science, and it brings us back to the birth of genetics - a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
May 12, 2001, Mariner Books
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The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel
May 2000, Houghton Mifflin
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
May 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company
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