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That reminds me that understanding of hereditary came shockingly late (I keep forgetting this). There is a book

Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England

by Nicholas Russell

that goes into the history, with the basics emerging in the 17th and 18th century. I feel that I ought to read it, to understand the intellectual history, but I haven't even bought a copy yet.