TY - T1 - How Political Repression Stifled the Nascent Foundations of Heredity Research Before Mendel in Central European Sheep Breeding Societies SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/330277 T3 - A1 - Poczai, Péter; Santiago-Blay, Jorge; Sekerák, Jiří; T. Szabó, Attila A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - The nineteenth century was a time of great economic, social, and political change. The population of a modernizing Europe began demanding more freedom, which in turn propelled the ongoing discussion on the philosophy of nature. This spurred on Central European sheep breeders to debate the deepest secrets of nature: the transmission of traits from one generation to another. Scholarly questions of heredity were profoundly entwined with philosophy and politics when particular awareness of "the gene... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology; artificial selection; history of heredity; learned societies; sheep breeding; war; INTERNATIONAL-CONGRESS; GENETICS; LEGACY; MENDEL,GREGOR; ORIGIN; BRNO N1 - PP - ER -