Gregor Mendel · Science
How Mendel’s deepest revolution was not a fact about peas but a method - bringing number, ratio, and quantitative experiment into the heart of biology, and proving that the living world, like the physical one, obeys discoverable laws expressed in mathematics.
You learned that Mendel’s lasting revolution was methodological: he brought quantitative experiment, statistical reasoning, and mathematical law into biology, treating living inheritance with the rigour previously reserved for physics. Explain why this mathematization of biology was as important as any specific law he…
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