Editing Gregor Mendel (section)

==== Initial reception of Mendel's work ====
Mendel presented his paper, {{lang|de|Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden}} ("[[Experiments on Plant Hybridization]]"), at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brno in [[Moravia]] on 8 February and 8 March 1865.{{sfn|Henig|2000|pp=134–138}} It generated a few favorable reports in local newspapers,<ref name="Moore-2003" /> but was ignored by the scientific community. When Mendel's paper was published in 1866 in {{lang|de|[[Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brünn|Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn]]}},<ref>Mendel, J.G. (1866). "[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124139#page/133/mode/1up Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden]", ''Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn'', Bd. IV für das Jahr, 1865, ''Abhandlungen'': 3–47. For the English translation, see: {{cite journal|last1=Druery|first1=C.T.|last2=Bateson|first2=William|year=1901|title=Experiments in plant hybridization|url=http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/gm-65.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000902033224/http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/gm-65.pdf |archive-date=2000-09-02 |url-status=live|journal=Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society|volume=26|pages=1–32|access-date=9 October 2009}}</ref> it was seen as essentially about hybridization rather than inheritance, had little impact, and was cited only about three times over the next thirty-five years. His paper was criticized then but is now considered a seminal work.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Galton|first1=D. J.|title=Did Mendel falsify his data?|journal=QJM|date=2011|volume=105|issue=2|pages=215–16|doi= 10.1093/qjmed/hcr195|pmid=22006558|doi-access=free}}</ref> Notably, [[Charles Darwin]] was not aware of Mendel's paper, and it is envisaged that if he had been aware of it, genetics as it exists now might have taken hold much earlier.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lorenzano|first1=P|title=What would have happened if Darwin had known Mendel (or Mendel's work)?|journal=History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences|date=2011|volume=33|issue=1|pages=3–49|pmid=21789954}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Y|title=Darwin and Mendel: who was the pioneer of genetics?|journal=Rivista di Biologia|date=2005|volume=98|issue=2|pages=305–22|pmid=16180199}}</ref> Mendel's scientific biography thus provides an example of the failure of obscure, highly original innovators to receive the attention they deserve.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|date=1995|title=The Plight of the Obscure Innovator in Science|journal=Social Studies of Science|volume=25|issue=1|pages=165–83|doi=10.1177/030631295025001008 |last1=Nissani |first1=M.|s2cid=144949936}}</ref>