[Taxacom] Imre Festetics

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Dear Taxacomers,

Meet Count Imre Festetics the pioneer of genetics before Mendel was born. He is
as obscure today as Mendel is famous. However, he give the name "genetics"
80 years before William Bateson and formulated some genetic rules of
nature. It just appeared in PLoS Biology:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001772

All the best,
Peter

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P?ter Poczai, PhD
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department of Biosciences
University of Helsinki
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Finland
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