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Old 11-03-2008, 06:03 PM   #12 (permalink)
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1. That Mendel was living what is perceived as a mundane life, but what was in fact an incredibly and exciting life to Mendel.
I don't think that there's reason to assume that Mendel was more excited than other normal people.
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His records of his plants' traits and breedings gave us the concept of inheritance
His records were only read by the scientists of the day after other people did gave us the concept of inheritance.
He gets the credit because he was first, not because he brought us those ideas.
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