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- At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline.
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Jan 28, 2014 · At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline.
William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
William Bateson (born August 8, 1861, Whitby, Yorkshire, England—died February 8, 1926, London) was a British biologist who founded and named the science of genetics and whose experiments provided evidence basic to the modern understanding of heredity. A dedicated evolutionist, he cited embryo studies to support his contention in 1885 that ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 1, 2009 · In his earliest research, Bateson engaged in the systematic study of natural variation and its causes, motivated by his conviction that an understanding of variation was essential for an understanding of evolution by natural selection.
William Bateson vigorously objected to the assumptions within the chromosome theory of heredity proposed by T. H. Morgan because he perceived inadequate experimental data that could substantiate the theory.
- Alan R. Rushton
- 2014
Dec 1, 2001 · As fate would have it, Galton found himself strongly allied with the young geneticist William Bateson, who would become Mendel's great champion in Great Britain. This article describes how Galton and Bateson came independently to the conclusion that evolution must proceed in discontinuous steps.
William Bateson coined the term genetics and, more than anybody else, championed the principles of heredity discovered by Gregor Mendel.
