How the works of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel contribute enormously to our understanding of the heritability of characteristics

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - General, grade: 1,6, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)1 was the first person who explained an evolutionary theorie and the transmutations of species by natural selection and fitness. He stated that character traits are passing from one generation to another. But he didn’t explain how this took pla...