Mendelism

Crude hereditarianism often re-emerges after major advances in biological knowledge: Darwinism begat eugenics; Mendelism begat worse eugenics.

If we want to honour Mendel, then let us read him seriously, which is to say historically, without back-projecting the doctrinaire Mendelism that came later.

Inasmuch as we shall give much consideration to this method in the chapter on Mendelism we need not consider it further here.

But the answer which will occur to everyone at the present time is in terms of "Mendelism," into a discussion of which we cannot enter.

III The lay reader need not perplex himself with the problems and phenomena of Mendelism.