In 1901 William Bateson‎,‎ Professor of Biology at Cambridge‎,‎ published a renewed version of a lecture which he had delivered the year before to the Royal Horticultural Society in London ‎(‎reprinted in the book as an appendix‎)‎‎.‎ In this lecture he recognized the importance of the work completed by Gregor Mendel in 1865‎,‎ and brought it to the notice of the scientific world‎.‎ Upon reading Bateson‎'‎s paper‎,‎ Archibald Garrod realized the relevance of Mendel‎'‎s laws to human disease and in 1902 introduced Mendelism to medical genetics‎.‎ The first part of A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics takes a historical perspective of the first 50 years of Mendelism‎,‎ including the bitter argument between the Mendelians and the biometricians‎.‎ The second part discusses human genetics since 1950‎,‎ ending with a final chapter examining genetics and the future of medicine‎.‎ The book considers the genetics of both single‎-gene and complex diseases‎,‎ human cancer genetics‎,‎ genetic linkage‎,‎ and natural selection in human populations‎.‎Besides being of general‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎