Re: Evolutionary Viewpoint of William Bateson

NICHE541 <oikos541@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 6, 12:53=A0am, forsdyke <forsd...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Treasure Your Exceptions" The Science and Life of William Bateson, by
Alan G. *** & Donald R. Forsdyke (Springer, New York, September 2008)

William Bateson brought the work of Mendel to the attention of the
English-speaking world and commanded the biological sciences in the
decades after the death of Charles Darwin in 1882. We owe to Bateson
words such as homozygote, heterozygote, epistasis and homeotic. He
suggested the name "Genetics" for the new science that had emerged
from the work of Mendel. Recent advances in evolutionary
bioinformatics have led to a reevaluation of the arguments Bateson
presented a century ago. For more information, please see Forsdyke's
web-pages athttp://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/book04.htm

This is an area of the History of Science of which I am unaware. I
will read with enthusiasm!

He also named the "species problem". Cool guy.
--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Queensland
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

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