No matter how you slice it, however, their seeming diversity is only skin - deep: heirlooms are actually feeble and inbred — the defective product of breeding experiments that began during the Enlightenment and exploded thanks to enthusiastic backyard gardeners from Victorian England to Depression - era West Virginia. (scientificamerican.com)
The monk and botanist, Gregor Mendel used peas in his plant breeding experiments. (whfoods.com)
Daniel Bruhl is brilliantly convincing as the genuinely diabolical Dr. Lutz Heck, soon to be infamous as Hitler's own zoologist who wanted to use the remaining zoo animals in Warsaw for selective breeding experiments back in Berlin. (awardsdaily.com)