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Originally Posted by creekster
Yes. exactly. You sure hit that nail on the head.
If technological innovations occur without respect to ecnomic incentives then does the fact that Mendel's innovations took place amidst commerce show causation?
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Mendel's findings weren't popularized until after he died.
The causal mechanism is simple: Burgeoning commerce led everyone to mix better peas for sale. Mendel got in on the bandwagon, then discovered the concept of dominant/recessive genes while mixing peas.
He wasn't mixing peas for fun.