Complex sentence: At Cambridge, Fisher learned of the newly rediscovered theory of Mendelian genetics; he saw biometry--and its growing corpus of statistical methods--as a potential way to reconcile the discontinuous nature of Mendelian inheritance with continuous variation and gradual evolution.
Split into simpler sentences: At Cambridge, Fisher learned of the newly rediscovered theory of Mendelian genetics. He saw biometry and its growing corpus of statistical methods as a potential way to reconcile the discontinuous nature of Mendelian inheritance with continuous variation and gradual evolution.