Building on the work of Darwin and Mendel, the biologist William
Bateson (1861-1926) was the first scientist to combine the study of
variation, heredity and evolution, and to use the term 'genetics'.
This book was first published in 1894 after many years of
experimental and theoretical work - particularly in the embryology
of the acorn worm genus Balanoglossus - which had been guided by
the principle that embryonic developmental stages replay the
evolutionary transitions of adult forms of an organism's ancestors.
Bateson was the first to challenge this theory, which made him
unpopular among the scientific establishment of the time, but he
was proved right. Organising his material by anatomical sections,
Bateson explores speciation, phylogeny and discontinuous and
continuous variation among a wide range of species, including
vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. This pioneering work offers
great insight into how the study of genetics and inheritance itself
evolved.
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