Genetics is important to our understanding of selection for at least three reasons: first, although the concept of selection seems obvious, it was not until selection was linked to Mendelian genetics ...

One of the more interesting questions about the history of science is whether certain theories are inevitable. Given a set of data and the prevalent intellectual environment, does it become difficult ...

A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

Challenging a scientific law of inheritance that has stood for 150 years, scientists say plants sometimes select better bits of DNA in order to develop normally even when their predecessors carried ...