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Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems / Authorised Translation

Chapter 1: ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY AND KINDRED BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
By August Weismann
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A collection of linked essays examining biological inheritance and related problems. It opens with an inquiry into factors that determine organismal lifespan and then develops a theory of heredity centered on the continuity of the germ-plasm. Subsequent essays analyze the significance of sexual reproduction, the number and role of polar bodies, and the conditions that allow parthenogenetic development. Other pieces critically evaluate botanical and experimental claims for the transmission of acquired characters and for the heritability of mutilations. Empirical observations are combined with theoretical interpretation, and the essays are presented as successive stages in a progressively refined research program.

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Title: Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems

Author: August Weismann

Editor: Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton

S. Schönland

Sir A. E. Shipley

Release date: February 1, 2015 [eBook #48132]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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TRANSLATIONS
OF
FOREIGN BIOLOGICAL MEMOIRS
IV.
London
HENRY FROWDE
Oxford University Press Warehouse
Amen Corner, E.C.

ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY
 
AND KINDRED
 
BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

BY
Dr. AUGUST WEISMANN
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG IN BREISGAU
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION
EDITED BY
EDWARD B. POULTON, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.
TUTOR OF KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD
LECTURER IN NATURAL SCIENCE, JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD
SELMAR SCHÖNLAND, Ph.D.
SUB-CURATOR OF THE FIELDING HERBARIUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
AND
ARTHUR E. SHIPLEY, M.A., F.L.S.
FELLOW AND LECTURER OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
DEMONSTRATOR OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1889