Article ID: CBB635458781

Why the Rediscoverer Ended up on the Sidelines: Hugo De Vries’s Theory of Inheritance and the Mendelian Laws (2015)

unapi

Eleven years before the ‘rediscovery’ in 1900 of Mendel’s work, Hugo De Vries published his theory of heredity. He expected his theory to become a big success, but it was not well-received. To find supporting evidence for this theory De Vries started an extensive research program. Because of the parallels of his ideas with the Mendelian laws and because of his use of statistics, he became one of the rediscoverers. However, the Mendelian laws, which soon became the foundation of a new discipline of genetics, presented a problem. De Vries was the only one of the early Mendelians who had developed his own theory of heredity. His theory could not be brought in line with the Mendelian laws. But because his original theory was still very dear to him, something important was at stake and he was unwilling to adapt his ideas to the new situation. He belittled the importance of the Mendelian laws and ended up on the sidelines.

...More
Included in

Article Erik L. Peterson; Kostas Kampourakis (2015) The Paradigmatic Mendel at the Sesquicentennial of “Versuche über Pflantzen-Hybriden”: Introduction to the Thematic Issue. Science and Education (pp. 1-8). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB635458781/

Similar Citations

Article Kampourakis, Kostas; (2013)
Mendel and the Path to Genetics: Portraying Science as a Social Process (/isis/citation/CBB001252323/)

Book Gottfried Brem; (2017)
150 Jahre Mendelsche Regeln: Vom Erbsenzählen zum Gen-Editieren (/isis/citation/CBB197972119/)

Book Tudge, Colin; (2001)
Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies (/isis/citation/CBB000102136/)

Article Zevenhuizen, Erik; (2000)
Keeping and scrapping: The story of a Mendelian lecture plate of Hugo de Vries (/isis/citation/CBB000111937/)

Article Falk, Raphael; (2008)
Molecular Genetics: Increasing the Resolving Power of Genetic Analysis (/isis/citation/CBB000931565/)

Article Deichmann, Ute; (2010)
Gemmules and Elements: On Darwin's and Mendel's Concepts and Methods in Heredity (/isis/citation/CBB001230066/)

Book Alfonso Lucifredi; (2018)
L'eredità di Mendel : all'origine della genetica (/isis/citation/CBB911718694/)

Article Coesèl, Marga; Zevenhuizen, Erik; (2000)
Op heterdaad betrapt? Hugo de Vries en zijn houding tegenover vrouwen in de wetenschap (/isis/citation/CBB000110510/)

Article Stamhuis, Ida H.; (2003)
The Reactions on Hugo de Vries's Intracellular Pangenesis; the Discussion with August Weismann (/isis/citation/CBB000340697/)

Article Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg; (2008)
Heredity and Its Entities around 1900 (/isis/citation/CBB000931145/)

Article Hans-Jörg Rheinberger; (2015)
Re-discovering Mendel: The Case of Carl Correns (/isis/citation/CBB876750608/)

Review Sheldon, Myrna Perez; (2014)
Review of "A Cultural History of Heredity" (/isis/citation/CBB001500037/)

Book Theodore Porter; (2018)
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (/isis/citation/CBB112989643/)

Book Brzezinski Prestes, Maria Elice; Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira; Stefano, Waldir; (2006)
Filosofia e História da Biologia 1 (/isis/citation/CBB000820181/)

Chapter Larson, Edward J.; (2010)
Biology and the Emergence of the Anglo-American Eugenics Movement (/isis/citation/CBB001020302/)

Chapter Marcello Buiatti; (2015)
La storia del gene (/isis/citation/CBB572210343/)

Book Rushton, Alan R.; (2009)
Genetics in Medicine in Great Britain 1600 to 1939 (/isis/citation/CBB001020882/)

Article Teicher, Amir; (2014)
Mendel's Use of Mathematical Modelling: Ratios, Predictions and the Appeal to Tradition (/isis/citation/CBB001510272/)

Article Edwards, A. W. F.; (2012)
Punnett's Square (/isis/citation/CBB001221605/)

Authors & Contributors
Zevenhuizen, Erik J. A.
Tudge, Colin
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
Brem, Gottfried
Alfonso Lucifredi
Teicher, Amir
Concepts
Genetics
Heredity
Mendelism
Mendel's law
Evolution
Biology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Moravia
United States
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment