William Bateson
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bateson#column-one> , search <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bateson#searchInput> William Bateson , was a British geneticist . He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and inheritence. Biography Bateson was born in Whitby , educated at Rugby School and St John's College , Cambridge , he popularised the work of Gregor Mendel in the English-speaking world. Bateson became involved in a bitter dispute with the biometricians led by his former teacher Walter Frank Raphael Weldon and by Karl Pearson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson> . The biometricians doubted the generality of Mendel's account of heredity and also believed that evolution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution> proceeded continuously rather than by jumps. These differences were resolved with the modern evolutionary synthesis . See Provine. Bateson was the first to name research on heredity with "genetics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics> " from the Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> word "genetikos" (the produced) in 1906 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906> , three years before Wilhelm Johannsen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Johannsen> used the word "gene <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene> " for the units of hereditary information. Thus the phenomenon of phenotype <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotype> was investigated earlier than genes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene> were discovered. Bateson co-discovered genetic linkage <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_linkage> with Reginald Punnett <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Punnett> , and he and Punnett founded the Journal of Genetics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Genetics> in 1910 . His son was the anthropologist Gregory Bateson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson> . [edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Bateson&action=edit§i on=2> ] References * W. B. Provine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Provine> (1971) The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. University of Chicago Press. [edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Bateson&action=edit§i on=3> ] External links _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
