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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He also got hilariously lucky in what he was doing. It's worth a read into the modern-day reproductions (no pun intended) of his work to see just how unlikely he was to get his results as fast as he did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's now believed that he altered the data, since they fit the 1:3 ratios way too well for populations where each has a ΒΌ probability. Still, very good work considering he might not have heard of the scientific method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you got any links? A quick search didn't show up anything in that direction, only how important Mendel was for modern genetics...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

https://youtu.be/lpObkqMb2_0

This sums it up pretty well. Its, of course, not guaranteed that any fishy or particularly lucky happened, but it's a lot simpler if it did