ABSTRACT
Archie Garrod published the major results of his studies in the Lancet in 1902. These demonstrated very suggestively that Gregor Mendel's model of inheritance worked for man too. According to Alfred Russell Wallace, Mendel's concepts are not novel either, because most of the facts were known to Charles Darwin. Wallace, a friend and colleague of Darwin, was eminent British biologist who failed to recognize the importance of Mendel's work. He died in 1913 and so was well aware of the rediscovery of Mendel's ideas around 1900 by Garrod and the botanists. The fundamental fact that certain characteristics do not blend when hybridized was not only well known to Darwin but also carefully discussed by him in his book Animals and Plants under Domestication.
