Dutch #botanist and #geneticist who introduced the experimental study of #organic #evolution. His…
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Dutch #botanist and #geneticist who introduced the experimental study of #organic #evolution. His rediscovery in 1900 (simultaneously with the botanists Carl Correns and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg) of Gregor Mendel's principles of #heredity and his theory of biological #mutation, though considerably different from a modern understanding of the phenomenon, resolved ambiguous concepts concerning the nature of variation of species that, until then, had precluded the universal acceptance and active investigation of Charles #Darwin's system of organic evolution.
