Florence Margaret Durham

Florence Margaret Durham was a British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and an advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance, at a time when it was still controversial. She was part of an informal school of genetics at Cambridge led by her brotherinlaw William Bateson. Her work on the heredity of coat colours in mice and canaries helped to support and extend Mendels law of heredity. It is also one of the first examples of epistasis.

Florence Margaret Durham was born in London, one of six daughters of surgeon Arthur Edward Durham and his wife Mary Ann Cantwell. Arthur Durham was an alcoholic and his wife was strongly opposed to alcohol.

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