In case you missed this part in school, Gregor Mendel grew and charted data on 28,000 individual pea plants. He wasn’t just a gardener who stumbled across the idea of inherited traits. He was an unacknowledged genius who dedicated himself to methodical research for over a decade.
Also, this book is fascinating. One of my coworkers read it and said that if she could have dinner with any famous person, living or dead, it would be Carl Linnaeus, so she could punch him in the face.















