by Colin Tudge (Author)
In the 1850s and 1860s, growing peas in his monastery garden in Brno in Moravia, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel worked out the basic laws of heredity. Colin Tudge argues that once what Mendel is understood, subsequent advances fall naturally into place and light is thrown on humanity's future.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0099288753
ISBN 13: 9780099288756
Book Overview: Colin Tudge is three-time winner of the Glaxo/ABSW Science Writer of the Year Award, and is the author of a number of books including Animals at the Zoo , The Day Before Yesterday , and The Engineer in the Garden .