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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“Had Mendel’s work come into the hands of Darwin, it is not too much to say that the history of the development of evolutionary philosophy would have been very different from that which we have witnessed.”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, Introduction: The Problems of Heredity, trans. Bateson's own English
The closing sentence of Bateson's introduction, just before Mendel's paper.
Citation: "Had Mendel’s work come into the hands of Darwin, it is not too much to say that the history of the development of evolutionary philosophy would have been very different from that which we have witnessed." — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, Introduction: The Problems of Heredity, trans. Bateson's own English. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q6)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
