Donald R Forsdyke, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Published online: October 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002359
1861–1926 British biologist and champion of Mendel's ideas in the English-speaking world, who postulated a nongenic ‘residue’ involved in speciation.
 | Figure 1. William Bateson (1861–1926). |
Keywords: origin of species; mendel; Darwin; natural selection; biometricians
| Further Reading | |
| Bateson W and Saunders ER (1902) Experiments undertaken by W. Bateson, FRS and Miss ER Saunders. Reports to the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society 1: 1–160. | |
| book Bateson W (1909) Mendel's Principles of Heredity. Cambridge: University Press. | |
| book Bateson W (1914) Problems of Genetics. Yale: Yale University Press. | |
| book Bateson B (1929) William Bateson, FRS, Naturalist. Cambridge: University Press. | |
| Coleman W (1970) Bateson and chromosomes: conservative thought in science. Centaurus 15: 228–314. | |
| Forsdyke DR (1999) Two levels of information in DNA: relationship of Romanes’ ‘intrinsic’ variability of the reproductive system, and Bateson's ‘residue’ to the species-dependent component of the base composition, (C+G)%. Journal of Theoretical Biology 201: 47–61. | |
| Forsdyke DR (2000) Haldane's rule: hybrid sterility affects the heterogametic sex first because sexual differentiation is on the path to species differentiation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 204: 443–452. | |
| book Forsdyke DR (2001) The Origin of Species, Revisited. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. | |
| book Naveira HF and Maside XR (1998) "The genetics of hybrid male sterility in Drosophila". In: Howard DJ and Berlocher SH (eds) Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, pp. 330–338. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| Olby R (1988) The dimensions of scientific controversy: the biometic-Mendelian debate. British Journal of the History of Science 22: 299–320. | |
| ePath Forsdyke DR. William Bateson [http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/bateson1.htm] [Full text of some Bateson papers]. | |
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