Re: genetics etc.

["alex pastor" <alexp@idirect.com>]

>Actually, the notation dates back to Mendel who designated the original
>parents as P and the "filial" subsequent generations as F1, F2 etc.
>Actually, I don't believe Mendel did much (or even any?) work past F2, but
>what he did changed the world just as much as Darwin's work.  It just
>didn't seem so revolutionary at the time.


And it turns out that the little monk cheated!!  He fit his data to his
theory, because not every combination of genes produces equally robust young
and therefore the proportions were not as he wrote in his articles.  Of
course, we now know all about chromosomes and genes and how they do things,
and he was right about the ratio of genes being passed on through
reproduction.  But wrong because not all specimens are equal in their
ability to pass on their gene combinations as others are.

G. Kadar




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