The Origin of Species · Character
Gärtner
A tireless hybridizer whose crossing experiments Darwin keeps invoking, as if the fertility of plants could settle the deepest questions about what a species really is.
supporting
Also known as Gartner, Both Gartner
First appearance: i variation under domestication
As a supporting figure in The Origin of Species, Gärtner is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Referenced for demonstrating that a plant's own pollen is prepotent over foreign pollen when crossing distinct species.
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Gärtner stands among the experimenters whose careful crosses Darwin cites when the argument turns to sterility and hybridism. His work supplies the awkward facts: species crossed often yield sterile offspring, while…
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- Hybridization experimenters
- Protagonist
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- On the Intercrossing of Individuals
- IX: Hybridism
- Degrees of Sterility
- Laws Governing the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids
- Origin and Causes of the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids
- Reciprocal Dimorphism and Trimorphism
- Fertility of Varieties When Crossed, and of Their Mongrel Offspring, Not Universal
- Hybrids and Mongrels Compared, Independently of Their Fertility
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See Gärtner in i variation under domestication