Talk:History of genetics

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Expansion

The current version of this page is what we would call in the field the "scientist's view of history" -- teleological, Whig history, etc. For those looking to expand this, I highly recommend Peter J. Bowler's, The Mendelian Revolution, which does a much better job at explaining the history of genetics in a non-teleological sense. Very accessible book, written for non-specialists by a well-respected historian of biology. --Fastfission 17:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Referencing with inline calls

Some referencing with inline citations could help this article ☤'ProfBrumby 17:59, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Merge

Modern Evolution of Genetics Timeline should be merged here. The purpose of that article is pretty much covered here, plus the title and concept is all un-Wikipedia-like. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 13:10, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.174.168.76 (talk) 19:47, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support - the MEGT article has quite a bit of detail not found here, and it often gives more detail than on items here, so some effort will be needed in the merge (including maybe adding detail to items covered here but not there, for evenness), but the intention of the two articles is certainly very similar. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Evolution is not real and should not contaminate this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.174.168.76 (talk) 19:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

This is not a forum for discussion of personal opinions. We are simply deciding on an article merge, to which those comments have no relevance. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:33, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support Modern Evolution of Genetics Timeline is an article with a lot of good content but a bad title (who would search for that?) This is an article with a good title (along the same lines as history of biology, history of paleontology, history of evolutionary thought, etc.) but very minimal content (little more than a stub). Merging that article into this one would be a good start on a much needed expansion of this article. Rusty Cashman (talk) 19:39, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid this was a terrible idea in retrospect. What we have now is a short but reasonably fluent and at least partly-cited article, followed by a bullet-list, almost wholly uncited, repeating the conventional "wisdom" of a first school course in genetics that is already in the cited text, and ignoring all the nuances (where's mutationism, for instance?) that don't fit neatly into such a naive directional (onwards and upwards! progress!) view of how science works. In short, it's both untidy and unwittingly dishonest. One option would be to attempt a merge, though the things really don't fit (and the whole thing would need a rewrite even more urgently if we put all those bitty uncited factoids into the text), or it could be split out again. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:13, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Given that the timeline has a better name than the one that was criticised, and that it is quite standard to have a timeline alongside a history article, I'm boldly reinstating the timeline now. Happy to discuss, but it really sits here in this article "like a mattress on a bottle of wine". Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:51, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Are we being frank about Franklin?

The text contains the line "1953: DNA structure is resolved to be a double helix by Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick". I propose that either we simply remove Franklin's name or rephrase the sentence to something like 1953: DNA structure is resolved to be a double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick, building on work by Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and Raymond Gosling.Jjc2002 (talk) 11:21, 1 June 2019 (UTC)Jjc2002

History of genetics

Some of the sources of India required reliable citation but they are not providing it so we are going to remove it. Obiwana (talk) 19:30, 12 October 2022 (UTC)