Lenay C
Department of Technology and Human Sciences, Compiègne University of Technology, BP 60319, 60203 Compiègne, France.
C R Acad Sci III. 2000 Dec;323(12):1053-60. doi: 10.1016/s0764-4469(00)01250-6.
On the basis of the article by the Dutch botanist Hugo De Vries 'On the law of separation of hybrids' published in the Reports of the Académie des Sciences in 1900, and the beginning of the controversy about priority with Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak, I consider the question of the posthumous influence of the Mendel paper. I examine the construction of the new theoretical framework which enabled its reading in 1900 as a clear and acceptable presentation of the rules of the transmission of hereditary characters. In particular, I analyse the introduction of the idea of determinants of organic characters, understood as separable material elements which can be distributed randomly in descendants. Starting from the question of heredity, such as it was defined by Darwin in 1868, and after its critical developments by August Weismann, Hugo De Vries was able to suggest such an idea in his Intracellular Pangenesis. He then laid out a programme of research which helps us to understand the 'rediscovery' published in 1900.
基于荷兰植物学家雨果·德·弗里斯1900年发表在《法国科学院报告》上的《论杂种的分离定律》一文，以及与卡尔·科伦斯和埃里希·冯·切尔马克关于优先权的争论的开端，我思考了孟德尔论文的身后影响力问题。我审视了新理论框架的构建，正是这个框架使得1900年人们能够将其解读为对遗传性状传递规则的清晰且可接受的阐述。特别地，我分析了有机性状决定因素这一概念的引入，该因素被理解为可分离的物质元素，能够在后代中随机分布。从达尔文1868年所定义的遗传问题出发，在奥古斯特·魏斯曼对其进行批判性发展之后，雨果·德·弗里斯在他的《细胞内泛生论》中能够提出这样一个概念。然后他制定了一个研究计划，这有助于我们理解1900年发表的“重新发现”。
