New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...
New research is shining a light on one of genetics’ enduring puzzles - how the workings of the so-called “selfish gene” could ...
IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...