Blogging the Human Genome

This period became known as the eclipse of Darwinism, and with every year that passed, Darwin had fewer defenders. About his only champions were a group of mathematically minded biologists called biometricians, who believed in Darwin?s slow-but-steady version of evolution. But Bateson?who could be a nasty SOB?soon went to work on them. One biometrician, Walter Weldon, had actually been Bateson?s mentor once, but Bateson showed his gratitude by joining a scientific society that funded biology work, then cutting Weldon off. When Weldon died in 1906, his widow publicly blamed Bateson?s rancor for the death, even though Weldon died from a heart attack while riding a bicycle. Meanwhile, a Weldon ally, Karl Pearson, blocked Bateson?s papers from appearing in journals, and also attacked Bateson in his (Pearson?s) house organ, the journal Biometrika. When Pearson refused Bateson the courtesy of responding in print, Bateson printed up fake copies of Biometrika, inserted his response inside, and distributed them to libraries and universities without any indication they were fraudulent. A limerick current at the time ran, ?Karl Pearson is a biometrician/ and this, I think, is his position./ Bateson and co./ hope they may go/ to monosyllabic perdition.?

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