James Schwartz is an independent scholar and writer living in Brookline, Massachusetts.

This is science for the intelligent general reader as it ought to be written and seldom is: where the scientists are flesh and blood human beings who struggle, fail, compete, rejoice, despair, go down wrong paths and finally stumble, in stages, upon a radically new way of seeing the natural world. A fascinating and readable odyssey that ranges from Texas to Holland to Stalin's prisons and reminds us how hard-won scientific knowledge is.

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Viva Pangenesis 2. Reversion to the Mean 3. Galton's Disciples 4. Pangenes 5. Mendel 6. Rediscovery 7. Mendel Wars I 8. Cell Biology 9. Sex Chromosomes 10. The Fly Room 11. Oenothera Reconsidered 12. X-rays 13. Mendel Wars II Epilogue Notes Index

James Schwartz is an independent scholar and writer living in Brookline, Massachusetts.

This is science for the intelligent general reader as it ought to be written and seldom is: where the scientists are flesh and blood human beings who struggle, fail, compete, rejoice, despair, go down wrong paths and finally stumble, in stages, upon a radically new way of seeing the natural world. A fascinating and readable odyssey that ranges from Texas to Holland to Stalin's prisons and reminds us how hard-won scientific knowledge is.

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Viva Pangenesis 2. Reversion to the Mean 3. Galton's Disciples 4. Pangenes 5. Mendel 6. Rediscovery 7. Mendel Wars I 8. Cell Biology 9. Sex Chromosomes 10. The Fly Room 11. Oenothera Reconsidered 12. X-rays 13. Mendel Wars II Epilogue Notes Index

James Schwartz is an independent scholar and writer living in Brookline, Massachusetts.

This is science for the intelligent general reader as it ought to be written and seldom is: where the scientists are flesh and blood human beings who struggle, fail, compete, rejoice, despair, go down wrong paths and finally stumble, in stages, upon a radically new way of seeing the natural world. A fascinating and readable odyssey that ranges from Texas to Holland to Stalin's prisons and reminds us how hard-won scientific knowledge is.

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Viva Pangenesis 2. Reversion to the Mean 3. Galton's Disciples 4. Pangenes 5. Mendel 6. Rediscovery 7. Mendel Wars I 8. Cell Biology 9. Sex Chromosomes 10. The Fly Room 11. Oenothera Reconsidered 12. X-rays 13. Mendel Wars II Epilogue Notes Index