02230nam a22002897i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000150007603500320009104000310012310000260015424501210018026400390030130000140034033600260035433700280038033800270040852013730043565000130180865000160182165000160183765000150185365000150186865000130188365000140189665000300191020261016202622.0261016s2000    xx ||||| |||||||| 0|eng d  a9780395977651  a0395977657  a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780395977651  aKOHALIBbengerdacKOHALIB1 aHenig, Robin Marantz.14aThe monk in the garden :bthe lost and found genius of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics /cRobin Marantz Henig. 1aBoston :bHoughton Mifflin,c2000.  a292 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But they may not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book On the Origin of Species, published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance for recognition failed utterly, and he died a lonely and disappointed man.". "Thirty-five years later, his work was rescued from obscurity in a single season, the spring of 1900, when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off Mendel's groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance.". "The silence that greeted Mendel's discovery and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics make up a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Telling the story as it has never been told before, Robin Marantz Henig has crafted a narrative that evokes Mendel's life and work and the fate of his ideas as they made their perilous way toward the light of day. The Monk in the Garden is about a little-known chapter in the history of science, and it brings us back to the birth of genetics - a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself."--BOOK JACKET. 4aGenetics 4aBiographies 4aGeneticists 4aMendelisme 4aPlantkunde 4aGenetica 4aBiography 4aMendel, Gregor, 1822-1884