Anthropology 1026F/G Lecture : Mechanisms of Evolution
17 Jan 2012
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Blending inheritance believed that if you had a tall father and small mother you would have a medium sized baby but this did not explain anything because eventually all variability would disappear. Believed there was a little person in every sperm so they thought all traits came from the father. Created laws of inheritance and was a contemporary of darwin s. Experiments on plant hybridization was presented to the natural history society of brno in 1865. Over a decade he played with different plants and animals and mostly peas examining inheritance. Realized there were seven traits that were important such as seed colour, step length, flower colour, etc. Some peas would make the same offspring generation after generation (a pure breeding plant of long or short stems) He found if he crossed those two strains that the offspring would all be tall so one strain overrode the other.
