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Charles Darwin did not write about genes. However, in The Origin of Species (published 1859) he proposes that natural selection occurs, and this was very controversial. An Augustinian Monk called Gregor Mendel discovered the patterns of inheritance when he did a study of inheritance in pea plants in 1866, but his work was not recognised until the twentieth century.

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