How many times have you heard the phrase "knee-high by the Fourth of July" when referring to corn crops? What does it mean?

Genetics Suggest Modern Female Came First. By ABC News. November 14, 2000, 10:17 AM. ... Race Not Evident in Genetics. What the tree does not do, he stresses, is identifyso-called races.

Regardless, modern genetics reveals the opposite of the earlier European theory: AASI hunter-gatherers predate the Zagrosians and the IVC by thousands of years, ...

Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor Mendel — and he loved breeding pea plants.

Over at sapiens.org, an anthropology magazine, author Elaine Guevara (a lecturer in evolutionary anthropology at Duke) takes modern genetics education to task. Making a number of assertions about what ...

Peifer writes that examples of eugenic thought are in everything from the words of James Watson, a founder of modern genetics whose breakthroughs on the molecular structure of DNA won a 1962 Nobel ...

But at the end of the day, this research laid the groundwork for all of modern-day genetics. Without those pea plants, we would know a whole lot less about the world—and ourselves.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years.

WE are surprised at the review of Waddington's “Introduction to Modern Genetics” by Dr. F. W. Sansome in NATURE of June 17, p. 1002. We are at a loss to know what the reviewer means when he ...

In July, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the “father of modern genetics” for his discovery of the laws of inheritance.His experiments ...

THE teaching of all subjects is bound to be influenced by its object. That object ostensibly has always been to expand the mind of the pupil, accustoming it to new modes of thought and to their ...