Editing Mendelian inheritance (section)

{{short description|Type of biological inheritance}}
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{{for|a non-technical introduction to the topic|Introduction to genetics}}[[File:Gregor Mendel.png|thumb|[[Gregor Mendel]], the Moravian Augustinian friar who founded the modern science of [[genetics]]]]
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'''Mendelian inheritance''' (also known as '''Mendelism''') is a type of [[biology|biological]] [[Heredity|inheritance]] following the principles originally proposed by [[Gregor Mendel]] in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by [[Hugo de Vries]] and [[Carl Correns]], and later popularized by [[William Bateson]].<ref>[[William Bateson]]: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=p5QDQAAACAAJ Mendel's Principles of Heredity - A Defence, with a Translation of Mendel's Original Papers on Hybridisation]'' Cambridge University Press 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-108-00613-2}}</ref> These principles were initially controversial. When Mendel's theories were integrated with the [[Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory]] of inheritance by [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] in 1915, they became the core of [[classical genetics]]. [[Ronald Fisher]] combined these ideas with the theory of [[natural selection]] in his 1930 book ''[[The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection]]'', putting [[evolution]] onto a [[mathematics|mathematical]] footing and forming the basis for [[population genetics]] within the [[Modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]].<ref name="grafen 69">{{cite book|title=Richard Dawkins: How A Scientist Changed the Way We Think|last=Grafen|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Grafen|author2=Ridley, Mark|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0-19-929116-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/richarddawkinsho00alan/page/69 69]|url=https://archive.org/details/richarddawkinsho00alan/page/69}}</ref>