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IT is a remarkable fact and a no less striking example of the vicissitudes in human affairs that one branch of research, the modern study of genetics, in which the results are put to the test of practical application with the least delay, should spring from an investigation, which was forgotten, and of which the record lay hidden in an obscure publication for fifty years. The resurrection of Mendel's paper on heredity, and the rapid and widespread effects which have followed the application of its principles to further experiment and to practical uses, drive home the lesson of the need for co-operation and co-ordination in scientific investigation as a condition of further advance and the avoidance of wasted effort.
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A Bureau of Human Heredity. Nature 137, 795–796 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137795a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137795a0