
In the 1800s, an Australian monk named Gregor Mendel was experimenting on pea plants as he tried to learn how a single cell could grow into an entire human. Today we can see the results of his work in almost every aspect of modern medicine. This book explores genetics through...

In the 1860s, Austrian monk Gregor Mendel discovered the basic laws of genetics through his experiments with pea plants. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick figured out the structure of DNA. This book traces the history of genetic discoveries from ancient beliefs about spontaneous...