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Quotes from Mendel's Principles of Heredity — William Bateson

1861–1926 England

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The concept of evolution as proceeding through the gradual transformation of masses of individuals by the accumulation of impalpable changes is one that the study of genetics shows immediately to be false.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

That the variations are controlled by physiological law, we have now experimental proof; but that this control is guided ever so little in response to the needs of adaptation there is not the smallest sign.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

In the light of the new knowledge various plausible, but frequently unsatisfying, suggestions put forward, especially by Wallace, Weismann, and their followers, as probable accounts of evolutionary progress, must be finally abandoned.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

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