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The Eureka Years - Series 3 - 1866

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Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history of science. Charles Darwin is an international celebrity following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Growing peas in a monastic garden a thousand miles away, however, Austrian priest Gregor Mendel holds the key to the process of heredity, the missing link in Darwin's theory.