Mt. Mendel

Mon, Aug 8, 2005

With: Michael Graupe
Rick Graham
Matthew Holliman
Ron Hudson

 Etymology Story Photos / Slideshow Map Profile

Mt. Mendel (13,710 ft.)

Named by Sierra Club in 1941

"Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian geneticist. The name was proposed by the Sierra Club before 1942, 'to add one more evolutionist to the Evolution Group. For some time the peak was informally known as Mt. Ex-Wallace.' (Letter, David Brower to C. A. Ecklund, USGS, March 7, 1951, copy in Farquhar files.) The peak was mistakenly named 'Mt. Wallace' on the first two editions of the Mt. Goddard 30' map, 1912 and 1918; this name was moved to the correct location on the 1923 edition."
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

"The discover of the mathematical laws of inheritance. Mendel's results were published in 1865 but ignored until 1900, when the geneticists de Vries and Correns simultaneously rediscovered them. A monk, Mendel was not a Darwinian and was interested in inheritance primarily because he wanted to show that permanent, new species could arise suddenly by hybridization. Mendel's results showing that second-generation hybrids produced a 3:1 ratio of the two hybrid morphologies were interpreted by later workers as evidence of particulate inheritance and the existence of dominant and recessive genes."
- Lefalophodon (online)

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