Three to One: Why Gregor Mendel Failed

Gregor Mendel was a monk who lived in what is now the Czech Republic in the first part of the nineteenth century. Generally regarded as the founder of modern genetics, he labored for eight years analyzing the inheritance of multiple characters in peas. Anyone who has taken high school biology is probably familiar with his work. What is not as widely known is that, while a member of the monastery, he was a substitute teacher who taught physics to grade school children. In order to secure a p...