Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, in the year 1900, brought Mendel's work back to light (using it to describe their own results) and certainly connected it to ideas of evolution (de Vries developed his own 'mutation theory' of evolution, and compares it extensively to Darwin's natural selection in his The Mutation Theory). read more
Traits were not blended, but inherited whole. And according to Mendel's laws of inheritance, a trait that might disappear in one generation might reappear in the following generation. Modern Neo-Darwinism combines both Darwin's and Mendel's work. Mendel's Genetic Experiments. Gregor Mendel was a patient man. read more