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035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780395977651
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
100	1		_aHenig, Robin Marantz.
245	1	4	_aThe monk in the garden : _bthe lost and found genius of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics / _cRobin Marantz Henig.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin, _c2000.
300			_a292 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 456; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aGenetics
650		4	_aBiographies
650		4	_aGeneticists
650		4	_aMendelisme
650		4	_aPlantkunde
650		4	_aGenetica
650		4	_aBiography
650		4	_aMendel, Gregor, 1822-1884
942			_cBOOK
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