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- Title
National traditions and the emergence of genetics: the French example.
- Authors
Gayon, Jean; Burian, Richard M.
- Abstract
After the 'rediscovery' of Mendel in 1900, Mendelian approaches to heredity were controversial. In France, however, resistance to Mendelism was especially strong and genetics only began to be institutionalized there after 1945. Nonetheless, extra-university research programmes in population and physiological genetics, which began after 1930, led to the rapid growth of genetic research after the Second World War, especially in regulatory genetics. We show that this rapid, but delayed, growth of genetic research was based on distinctively French traditions.
- Subjects
FRANCE; HEREDITY; GENETICS; GENETIC research; MENDEL'S law; GENETICS -- History; HISTORY; RESEARCH
- Publication
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 2, p150
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
historical material
- DOI
10.1038/nrg1274