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Mendelian inheritance
Type of biological inheritance
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Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biologicalinheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in and , re-discovered in by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson.[1] These principles were initially controversial. When Mendel's theories were integrated with the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory of inheritance by Thomas Hunt Morgan in , they became the core of classical genetics. Ronald Fisher combined these ideas with the theory of natural selection in his book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, putting evolution onto a mathematical footing
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Thoughts on a legacy
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This year we celebrate the th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Johann Mendel, who discovered the missing component of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the genetic mechanism of trait inheritance. The eight articles in this Special Feature collection cover various aspects of Mendel’s life, his work, and his contribution to science, with a special focus on his impact in evolutionary biology. In this introductory paper, we provide the context for the eight papers, as well as summarize how Mendel’s work has contributed to the development of modern evolutionary biology.
In On the ursprung of Species, Charles Darwin (1) proposed what he called “descent with modification”: what we now refer to as evolution through natural selection. Today, we can describe Darwin’s idea as a theory that requires a population with individuals having the following three properties:
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Differential reproductive success: each individual produces, on average, more offspring than is needed to replace itself up