IT would be no exaggeration to say that holes could be picked in any theory of heredity as yet put forward. The problem is one of great difficulty and complexity, and when we think of the enormous ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

THE recent co-ordination of experimental breeding and chromosome study has led to a complete reconstruction of our knowledge of heredity and variation. This in turn has given us the means of ...

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