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Quite a Way From the Humble Pea

Jan 02, 2007

Over at his Omics! Omics! website, blogger Keith Robison takes readers through the Gregor Mendel exhibit at Chicago's prestigious Field Museum. He gives the exhibit a thumbs-up, encouraging people to see it if possible. For the computational biology set, he notes: "One other point brought out by the exhibit: how Mendel was a pioneer of combining math with biology."

 

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