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J.B.S. Haldane Biography: Rebel of Modern Genetics

One way to begin a J.B.S. Haldane biography is in a muddy trench on the Western Front. A young British officer, already famous in his regiment for a reckless courage that bordered…

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Thomas Hunt Morgan Biography: Father of Gene Mapping

Any Thomas Hunt Morgan biography begins in a cramped New York classroom that smelled faintly of yeast and overripe bananas, where glass bottles buzzed with tiny fruit flies and a…

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Gregor Mendel Biography: The Quiet Monk Who Founded Genetics

On a patch of soil behind an Augustinian monastery in the city of Brno, a quiet friar knelt among rows of pea plants and began counting. It was not a…