1918 in Science - Biology

Biology

  • R.A. Fisher puts forward a genetic model that shows that continuous variation could be the result of Mendelian inheritance in his paper "The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance".
  • J. Henri Fabre's The Sacred Beetle, and others published in English.
  • Jacques Loeb's Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct published in the United States.

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