No muddling along when meddling like Mendel
Stand by, people, the reproduction ante is about to be upped
22 October 2023 - 00:27
In the moment Gregor Mendel (biologist, meteorologist, mathematician and discoverer of the fundamental laws of inheritance) realised he could play God, he may have paused, or perhaps the realisation just reinforced the idea that he was rapidly moving past all notions of good and evil taught at the monastery where he was interred as a monk in the name of progression and the making of a new science we now call genetics...
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