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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 ...
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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.
Oct 1, 2009 · This is a densely detailed biography of William Bateson, an important and controversial figure in the origins of evolutionary genetics, whose influence as the leading exponent of Mendelism helped to shape the modern synthesis and whose disagreements with T. H. Morgan over the chromosome theory of heredity may well have impeded its acceptance.
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 (1861-1926) was a biologist and evolutionary theorist who was best known in his time for rediscovering and defending the genetic paradigm of Gregor Mendel.
May 23, 2018 · After ruling out the selective power of the environment as the driving factor in evolution, Bateson proposed that evolution can be understood through a study of inheritance which would, he expected, reveal the origin of variation— the phenomenon underlying evolutionary change.
