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The construction of Mendel's laws
Author(s) -
Marks Jonathan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/evan.20192
Subject(s) - popularity , natural law , series (stratigraphy) , mathematical economics , natural (archaeology) , law , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , history , political science , biology , archaeology , paleontology
While “Mendel's Laws” are generally taught as natural facts, they are actually pedagogical constructions, which originated in a series of lectures at Princeton in 1916. What accounts for their popularity?