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Last Revised: June 06, 2000

Author - Tom Huber - Spring 1997

Useful references for an academic unit on Mendel’s paper Experiments on Plant Hybrids:

1. Corcos, Alain F. and Floyd V. Monaghan. 1993. Gregor Mendel’s Experiments on Plant Hybrids; A Guided Study. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey. {A definitive interpretation and discussion of Mendel’s major paper, section by section. Also includes a brief biography and sections on plant breeding in general and pea reproduction. ]
2. Moore, John A. 1993. Mendel and the Birth of Genetics. In Science as a Way of Knowing; The Foundations of Modern Biology. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. {A very useful interpretation of most of Mendel’s major paper, but not as extensive or careful as the book above.}
3. Orel, Vitezslav. 1984. Mendel. Oxford University Press. Oxford, England. {Gives an excellent intellectual background and recounting of Mendel’s life as it relates to the pea experiments and to his work as Abbot.
4. Peters, James A. (ed.). 1959. Classic Papers in Genetics. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. {Includes 28 classic papers in genetics starting with Mendel’s. Many papers from this collection were originally used at Mercer for Great Books IX, when a sequence of 9 or 10 seminal genetics papers was read carefully. }
5. Stern, Curt and Eva R. Sherwood (eds.). 1966. The Origin of Genetics; A Mendel Source Book. W. H. Freeman and Company. San Francisco, California. {Contains all of the published and unpublished extant papers and letters (in translation) by Mendel concerning genetics.}