caa a22 4500 465803032 CHVBK 20180323112057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00165254 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00165254 The real objective of Mendel's paper [Elektronische Daten] [Floyd Monaghan, Alain Corcos] According to the traditional account Mendel's paper on pea hybrids reported a study of inheritance and its laws. Hence, Mendel came to be known as "The Father of Genetics”. This paper demonstrates that, in fact, Mendel's objective in his research was finding the empirical laws which describe the formation of hybrids and the development of their offspring over several generations. Having found these laws (and not the laws of inheritance that he is generally credited with) he proposed a theoretical scheme involving the formation of germinal and pollen cells in hybrids and their combination in fertilization competent to explain why his laws took the form that they did. Mendel's research shows a pattern of development closely paralleling the stages of empirical investigation beginning at the level of qualitative description in common language rising through four levels of increasing abstraction and culminating in a fifth level, his simple mechanical theory. This mechanism met all the tests that a theory of this type must pass. In that respect Mendel was highly successful and this success might be the reason why he did not push his theory to a higher level, a sixth level involving the use of particulate determiners; despite this fact, Mendel was credited with having taken exactly that step. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Mendel nationallicence theory of hybrids nationallicence Mendelian laws nationallicence symbolic notation nationallicence levels of conceptualization nationallicence Monaghan Floyd Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. aut Corcos Alain Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. aut Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/3(1990-07-01), 267-292 0169-3867 5:3<267 1990 5 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165254 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165254 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Monaghan Floyd Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Corcos Alain Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/3(1990-07-01), 267-292 0169-3867 5:3<267 1990 5 10539 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 465803032 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer