“It is the failure to keep in mind the far-reaching consequences of this Mendelian principle of segregation of the germ-cells that has been responsible for the persistence of the fallacious doctrine of the inheritance of acquired characters.”

About Thomas Hunt Morgan

Scientist • American

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the...