To be sure, everyone knows the name of Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics.

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They rediscovered the laws of inheritance first developed 40 years earlier by Gregor Mendel, an unsung Moravian monk.

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The results of Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, are also suspiciously over-accurate by the tenets of modern statistics.

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Gregor Mendel , an Austrian monk, discovered the basic principles of heredity by tracking the shape of pea seeds and the color of pea plant flowers.

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Lead author Michael Dunn, an evolutionary linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, said the approach is akin to the study of pea plants by Gregor Mendel, which ultimately led to the idea of heritability of traits.

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This period of conflict may last for decades, particularly if the new paradigm comes, not from some of the existing leaders of the current scientific establishment but rather from some unexpected and peripheral source, e.g. the dramatically different theory of genetics coming from Gregor Mendel in Moravia or a revolutionary theory of stomach ulcers from Barry Marshall in Perth, Australia.

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