Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?

Opinion

Jonathan C Howard

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 47, 50674 Cologne, Germany

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:15 doi:10.1186/jbiol123

Published: 24 February 2009

Darwin's focus on small quantitative variations as the raw material of evolution may have prevented him from discovering the laws of inheritance.