title: Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?
abstract: Darwin's focus on small quantitative variations as the raw material of evolution may have prevented him from discovering the laws of inheritance.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany. j.howard@uni-koeln.de
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Howard
mesh_terms: D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D035264:Flowers / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D005838:Genotype; D010641:Phenotype; D031825:Primula / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development