title: Role of de Vries in the recovery of Mendel's work. I. Was de Vries really an independent discoverer of Mendel?
abstract: Recently, doubt has been cast on the view that de Vries developed the idea of disjunction independently of Mendel. Arguments are based on de Vries' own writings that showed the F2 data of his numerous crosses are reported as 3:1 ratios only after 1900. They also show that his theory of inheritance becomes quasi Mendelian only after 1900. The authors of this review paper cannot but agree with de Vries' critics that he did not develop his law of disjunction independently of Mendel. They also raise some questions that, hopefully, will lead to a reanalysis of de Vries' theory of inheritance in 1900.
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