Building on the work of Darwin and Mendel, the biologist William Bateson (1861 1926) was the first scientist to combine the Study of variation, heredity and evolution, and to use the term \'genetics\'.
This book was first published in 1894 after many years of experimental and theoretical work particularly in the embryology of the acorn worm genus Balanoglossus which had been guided by the principle that embryonic developmental stages replay the evolutionary transitions of adult forms of an orga.
Building on the work of Darwin and Mendel, the biologist William Bateson (1861 1926) was the first scientist to combine the Study of variation, heredity and evolution, and to use the term \'genetics\'