Darwin and DNA

• Autores: Peter Bowler
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3088, 2016, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Although Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin were alive at the same time, they never met and Darwin wasn't aware of Mendel's work. With hindsight, the union of the two men's work seems like a marriage made in heaven. In fact, for many years, it wasn't obvious that Mendel's studies of heredity had any relevance to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. It would take nearly 60 years for this jigsaw to be pieced together and give rise to the "modern synthesis" of evolution, which framed Darwin's idea in terms of genetics. Here, Bowler talks about how this new understanding arise.