1. On the globalization of genome research see Gabriele Abels, “Das globale Genom: Forschung und Forschungspolitik zum menschlichen Genom zwischen Kooperation und Konkurrenz,” in Biotechnologie—Globalisierung—Demokratie. Politische Gestaltung transnationaler Technologieentwicklung, ed. Daniel Barben and Gabriele Abels (Berlin: Ed. Stigma, 2000), 85–108.
2. Jeremy Rifkin, The Biotech Century. Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Putnam, 1998), 9.
3. In the years immediately following its publication Mendel’s original paper attracted hardly any attention at all. Yet in 1900 three essays appeared in one issue of the journal Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft by three scientists who had independently rediscovered the laws of inheritance formulated by Mendel: the first was by Hugo de Vries (1848–1935), the second by Carl Erich Correns (1864–1933), and the third by Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg (1871–1962): see Hugo de Vries, “Das Spaltungsgesetz der Bastarde.” Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 18 (1900): 83–90; Carl Correns, “G. Mendel’s Regel über das Verhalten der Nachkommenschaft der Rassenbastarde.” Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 18 (1900): 158–168; Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, “Über künstliche Kreuzung bei Pisum sativum” Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 18 (1900): 232–239.
4. In this context see Garland Allen, “T.H. Morgan and the Split between Embryology and Genetics, 1910–1926,” in A History of Embryology, ed. Timothy J. Horder, Jan Witkowski, and Christopher C. Wylie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 113.
5. See William Bateson, “The Progress of Genetic Research,” in Report of the Third International Conference on Genetics. Hybridisation (The Cross-Breeding of Genera or Species), The Cross-Breeding of Varieties, and General Plant-Breeding, ed. William Wilks (London: Royal Horticultural Society, 1907), 90–97.