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Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, formed our knowledge of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was disregarded in his own life-time, though it comprised answers to the most pressing questions brought up by Charles Darwin's groundbreaking publication, On Origrin of the Types, published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance of recognition failed utterly, and he passed away a lonely and disappointed man. Thirty-five years later, his work was rescued from obscurity within a season, the springtime of 1900, when three scientists from three different countries almost simultaneously dusted off Mendel's groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. The perplexing silence that greeted Mendel's finding and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics constitute a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a wholesome medication dosage of bad timing. Telling the story as it has never been informed before, Robin Henig crafts a suspenseful, elegant, and richly precise narrative that totally evokes Mendel's life and work and the destiny of his ideas as they made their perilous way toward the light of day. The Monk in the Garden is a literary tour de force about a little-known chapter in the history of research, and it brings us back again to the delivery of genetics - a field that continues to challenge just how we think about life itself.
