Yes he was a colonist. He wrote the pamphlet Common Sense. He said that King George the 3rd was a tyrant, and that Parliament did nothing without his consent.
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He investigated the laws of heritage; how the genes for certain characteristics was inherited by the next generation and the ones after. It's called classic <span>genetics or Mendelian genetics.</span>