Croonian Lecture: On the Mechanism of Heredity

Abstract

Several years ago I ventured to state that with the demonstration of the wide applicability of Mendel's two laws, and with the later discoveries of linkage and of crossing-over, the traditional problem of heredity had been, solved. On account of this statement, I have been rebuked for arrogantly affirming that there was nothing more to be learned about heredity!

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