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24:06do combinatorics. They're not like related to one another. It's not like the eye color >> goes with body color is like correlated in some way. So that that was his thing. Okay. So these are Mendele's laws. >> He presented these findings in 1865 published in 1866 experiments on plant hybrids. Um the response complete silence. Paper is ignored. It's cited a handful of times over the next 35 years. He died in 1884. Um unknown as a scientist. >> Terrible. >> Um and his discoveries were buried in some obscure journal. >> Terrible. >> Okay. 35 years later, we've got three botonists who start doing the same thing. Okay. Hugo Deere in the
24:49Netherlands, Carl Corin in Germany, and Eric von Sherark in Austria. and they independently figure all of this out and then as they're deep diving into the literature because the first thing you do is has someone else done it you know in the modern day there's a joke in academia there's always like a jiang at all that's done it [laughter] that's done it before so back then they're doing the same thing they're trying to find like has someone else done it and all three of them actually find Mendel's old paper in the literature and they