Comment on peas nutz
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year agoYes but he likely forged some data. Statistics show a high probability of his pea counts with a clear 3:1 phenome split being too good to be true.
Source: Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart. I also visited his museum on Mendel Square, Brno.
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He also discarded a lot of data that didn’t meet his proposed patterns.
How do we know? Well, wouldn’t it be a nice coincidence if this motherfucker just casually randomly selected 13 different traits that follow simple dominance patterns - but none of the other dozens of traits that do not?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes, he did not quite follow principles of integrity. But let’s not understate the impact of his work on biology.