Two years before the Darwin-Wallace paper, an obscure Austrian monk by the name of Gregor Mendel had started work on crossbreeding varieties of peas.

• 在达尔文-华莱士论文发表前两年，一位名叫孟德尔(GregorMendel)的默默无闻的奥地利修道士开始进行豌豆杂交品种研究。