Matt Ridley
Forbidden fruit is tempting I just read a wonderful book Hybrid: the history and science of plant breeding by Noel Kingsbury. It contains a charming story, of a Moravian priest called Father Schreiber, who was more interested in horticulture than holiness, and whose parish included Gregor Mendel’s birthplace, Hyncice. As Kingsbury tells the tale: Schreiber also […]